Tag: Autumn equinox

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The Autumn Equinox in Mexico: The Serpent That Crawls Down the Pyramid at Chichén Itzá

The 2026 autumn equinox (00:05 UTC on 23 September, 08:04:56 Beijing time) lands on the evening of 22 September in Mexico. Around sunset, seven inverted-triangle patches of light surface on the north staircase of the Kukulcán Pyramid at Chichén Itzá and join into a serpent crawling downward. This article looks at how the phenomenon is calculated, and at what locals are doing these days.

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Autumn Typhoons and the Days Marked for Travel

From 19 to 23 September Japan runs into a five-day break, and the next named typhoon is already on its way; around the same period, weather systems in the Taiwan region, Korea, Spain, Brazil and Mexico all made the trending lists. As for the almanac's "suitable for travel" and "avoid travel", what exactly is it avoiding? It and a weather forecast are really two different systems of cause and effect.