Monday 19 September 2022 05:05 AM Australia 'should be using Aboriginal seasons instead of colonial ones' trends now
Australia's seasons are inaccurate relics of colonialism and should be replaced with Aboriginal ones, politically correct rabble rousers claim.
Melburnians complained online they were still shivering through near-freezing weather despite it being days into spring, with 2.4C recorded.
Some Australians pointed out that the country is one of the few countries in the world that changes seasons on the same date every year.
Other countries use solstice dates that shift slightly every year and actually correspond with the timing of the seasons.
Melbourne resident shared his frustrations on Reddit (pictured) over near freezing temperatures during Spring. Users argued Indigenous weather calendars, which range from two to six seasons depending on the area, should be used across the country
Reddit users said the meteorological system was 'arbitrary for convenience' while astronomical timing - which determines the beginning of a new season based on solstices and equinoxes - worked for Europe and the United States.
'A lot of countries don't divide seasons by calendar months like we do, they divide them by the equinoxes and solstices. Which makes a lot of sense,' one user wrote.
'The reason people always complain about the weather in Melbourne is because they're measuring it against the norms of traditional European seasons from the other side of the globe,' another user wrote.
Others argued Australia should adopt an indigenous weather calendar, which is guided by the environment in a specific area of the country.
'The Wurundjeri people followed seasons based on actual observation of conditions, rather than trying to shoehorn the weather into categories that apply to Western Europe,' one wrote.
'Many indigenous groups had six seasons - seems like they make a lot more sense for our climate and I wish we'd use them instead,' another added.
The Bureau of Meteorology lists 17 seasonal weather calendars across the country (pictured) based on traditional First Nations weather knowledge for the region. The systems, developed over thousands of years, are based are land and ecological factors
There are six distinct weather periods recognised in the Gariwerd seasonal cycle. These are genuine seasons which relate to climatic features as well as referencing environmental events such as plant flowering, fruiting and animal behaviour patterns (pictured)
'I grew up in the bush and the Indigenous people lived by and knew the local seasons,' a third wrote.
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