Autumn trivia | 50 facts about the season

Autumn is one of the four seasons of a year, and it is one of the most beautiful and nostalgic seasons.

Let’s find out more about it!

1. Autumn is also known as fall in North American English.
2. It is one of the four temperate seasons.
3. Outside the tropics, autumn marks the transition from summer to winter.
4. The Autumn is coming on September in thw Northern Hemisphere and on March in the Southern Hemisphere.
5. During the Autumn, the duration of daylight becomes noticeably shorter and the temperature cools considerably.
6. Day length decreases and night length increases as the season progresses until the Winter Solstice which occurs on December 21st.
7. One of its main features in temperate climates is the shedding of leaves from deciduous trees.
8. Many people believe that Autumn officially coming on 1st of September, but they’re wrong.
9. Actually, it is officially Autumn on September 22nd.
10. And it is officially gone on December 21st.
11. The word autumn is derived from Latin autumnus, archaic auctumnus, possibly from the ancient Etruscan root autu- and has within it connotations of the passing of the year.
12. Alternative etymologies include Proto-Indo-European words that mean cold and dry, which are words that characterize this season.
13. After the Roman era, the word continued to be used as the Old French word autompne (automne in modern French) or autumpne in Middle Englishand was later normalised to the original Latin.
14. In the Medieval period, there are rare examples of its use as early as the 12th century.
15. But is started getting commonly used by the 16th century.
16. The alternative word fall for the season traces its origins to old Germanic languages.
17. The exact derivation is unclear, with the Old English fiæll or feallan and the Old Norse fall all being possible candidates.
18. However, these words all have the meaning “to fall from a height” and are clearly derived either from a common root or from each other.
19. The term came to denote the season in 16th-century England, a contraction of Middle English expressions like “fall of the leaf” and “fall of the year”.
20. Compare the origin of spring from “spring of the leaf” and “spring of the year”.
21. The name backend, a once common name for the season in Northern England, has today been largely replaced by the name autumn.
22. Association with the transition from warm to cold weather, and its related status as the season of the primary harvest, has dominated its themes and popular images.
23. In Western cultures, personifications of autumn are usually pretty, well-fed females adorned with fruits, vegetables and grains that ripen at this time.
24. Many cultures feature autumnal harvest festivals, often the most important on their calendars.
25. Still extant echoes of these celebrations are found in the autumn Thanksgiving holiday of the United States and Canada, and the Jewish Sukkot holiday with its roots as a full-moon harvest festival of “tabernacles” (living in outdoor huts around the time of harvest).
26. There are also the many North American Indian festivals tied to harvest of ripe foods gathered in the wild, the Chinese Mid-Autumn or Moon festival, and many others.
27. The predominant mood of these autumnal celebrations is a gladness for the fruits of the earth mixed with a certain melancholy linked to the imminent arrival of harsh weather.
28. September’s full moon is also named “Corn Moon”.
29. Another named given to September’s Full Moon is “Harvest Moon”, but this basically depends on the Spring Equinox.
30. In general, September’s full moon has many “nicknames”, that all refer to crops which are harvested in the early fall.
31. Some of these names were given by the indigenous Americans.
32. Autumn, especially in poetry, has often been associated with melancholia.
33. This is profoundly found in poetry. For example, in the Irish poet’s William Butler Yeats’ poem The Wild Swans at Coole.
34. Autumn is associated with Halloween
35. Halloween is on October 31st, when it is autumn in the northern hemisphere.
36. The television, film, book, costume, home decoration, and confectionery industries use this time of year to promote products closely associated with such a holiday, with promotions going from late August or early September to 31 October, since their themes rapidly lose strength once the holiday ends, and advertising starts concentrating on Christmas.
37. Halloween is influenced by Samhain, a Celtic autumn festival.
38. In some parts of the northern hemisphere, autumn has a strong association with the end of summer holiday and the start of a new school year.
39. According to studies fall babies are better students.
40. They are also more likely to live longer.
41. Global warming could affect fall foliage.
42. Sex drive spikes in the fall.
43. Same thing about… love!
44. Animals get libidinous in the fall too.
45. Monarch butterflies peace out.
46. But wait a minute: Why does even Autumn exists? Well, the answer is that it is caused by the Earth’s tilt
47. Autumn’s colors are the ones the leaves have when they fall out of the tress. These colors are created by the amount of sugar in leaves.
48. More people go from “single” to “in a relationship” or “engaged” in fall than any other season.
49. Birds spend most of the aytumn season migrating to warmer places.
50. Autumn depression is a real diagnosis, and it affects about 5% of the population of countries in which autumn occurs.