During the equinox, as the name itself reveals, the day and night are about equal at length. From today on until the winter solstice, each day will be a few minutes shorter than the previous one, explains Andreja Gomboc from the Ljubljana Faculty of Mathematics and Physics.
One of the features of autumn, apart from the seasonal farm work, is that temperatures begin to approach those in the winter – meteorologically autumn already started on September 1st. However weather forecasters avoid predicting the weather for the whole period, due to autumn’s long time span.
First autumn days: generally sunny, but with the "must be" fog
Andrej Velkavrh reported this morning on Radio Slovenija about what kind of weather we can expect this week: generally sunny, but with the “must be” autumn fog in the mornings. Morning temperatures will be low (from 2 to 7 degrees).

The week won't go by without any rain. "This year it's like that. In every good thing we get there's always something bad. This week the black sheep will be Thursday," explained Velkavrh and added that local rainfall won't only occur during the night, as it was first forecast, but also during the day. He did stress though that there won't be a lot of rain, "but that it won't be completely dry either."
As an introduction to the autumn days ahead, we offer you a few autumn photo moments from Europe and the world. Photo: EPA.