No matter whether you go by the astronomical calendar or the meteorological calendar, both agree that the country has now entered fall.

The autumnal equinox officially occurred on Monday at 2:19 p.m., when Earth's alignment allowed the Sun to be directly over the equator. This marks the point of the year when there are roughly equal amounts of daylight and darkness.

For the Northern Hemisphere, however, daylight hours are now on a steady decline as the region heads toward winter.

In addition to the shrinking daylight, temperatures also see their biggest drops of the year.

For instance, along the Interstate 10 corridor in the northern part of the state, average highs usually reach the mid to upper 80s in late September but plummet to the mid to upper 60s during the final weeks of astron

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