TOLEDO, Ohio — Monday officially kicked off fall, a seasonal transition marked by the autumn equinox.

While many people associate the equinox with equal daylight and darkness, this characterization is actually not true for most areas, including Toledo. The lesser known equilux represents the day with 12 hours of both daylight and darkness.

Though the equinox marks the start of autumn, it comes a few days before the balance of light and dark locally. On the day of the equinox, the center point of the sun is directly above the equator, creating equal light and darkness worldwide. So on a global level, the equinox does indeed mark equal day and night.

On a local scale, equilux is a better representation of the balance between daylight and darkness.

On the fall equinox Monday, Toledo saw

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