(Manzanita, Oregon) – Let’s face it. Summer is on life support. It’s about to go bye-bye. Mondays is the last full day of summer.
According to Jim Todd of Portland’s OMSI, fall arrives in the Pacific Northwest on Tuesday, September 22, 2026, at 5:05 p.m. PDT. With that comes not only seasonal and weather changes to Oregon, Washington and the coastlines, but also some shifts in the realms of physics and astronomy all around us.
“This is the moment in time when the Sun’s rays are directly over the equator, making day and night nearly equal in length,” Todd told Oregon Coast Beach Connection. “As the Sun’s rays continue their journey south, our hours of darkness will become longer than daylight. This is why it is called an ‘equinox,’ a Latin word meaning ‘equal night.’ “…