NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Even though the temperatures are still high, August and September are the months that we lose daylight the fastest.
Our seasons and our daylengths are caused by the Earth’s tilt. If the Earth didn’t spin on a tilted axis, we wouldn’t have seasons and each day would feature 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night.
Everywhere on Earth experiences two days with equal day and night each year on the spring and autumnal equinoxes. North of the equator, where Tennessee is, each day between the autumnal equinox and spring equinox there is less than 12 hours of daylight, and more than 12 hours of daylight between the spring equinox and autumnal equinox. The winter solstice is when we have the least daylight, and the summer solstice is when we have the most daylight…