Talk:Seasonal Dragon/@comment-98.216.212.198-20120901134845/@comment-25545081-20120902100949

An equinox occurs when the length of the day and the length of the night are the same. For the northern hemisphere (Backflip as well as the majority of players are based in the northern hemisphere) September 22 (the next equinox) will be autumn.

Autumn is typically considered as being cool, so after the Equinox is when this will happen (again for the northern hemisphere - the southern hemisphere will be shifting towards warmer). It honestly makes a lot more sense to base the official change of seasons (seasons being a natural occurrence) on a natural event (such as Equinoxes and Solstices) rather than a calendar, which is of human construct.