The winds of change for our traditional seasons?

On Monday night’s Nine O’Clock News, on RTÉ 1, weather presenter Gerry Murphy announced that "In Ireland, autumn is September, October and November". As bald and as bold as that.

The Irish Met Office has a web-page, ‘Fun Facts for Young Primary Students’, which says “Spring begins on the first of March and continues until the end of May”.

This is not true.