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Autumnal equinox 2024 brings fall to the Northern Hemisphere today

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On Sunday, Sept. 22 , at 8:44 a.m. Eastern daylight time, autumn begins in the Northern Hemisphere .

At that moment, the sun would be shining directly overhead as seen from a point in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean , 461 miles ( 743 km ) south-southwest of Monrovia , Liberia .

The definition of the equinox as being a time of equal day and night is a convenient oversimplification.

Not until Sept. 25 , are days and nights truly equal.

At the North Pole the duration of 24-hour darkness lasts almost 11-weeks , not six months .

It then remains perpetually dark until Jan. 28 when the twilight cycles begin anew.

Joe Rao is an 8 -time Emmy-nominated meteorologist who served the Putnam Valley region of New York for over 21 years .

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