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The added link will provide a brief and easy to understand guide to how the sensor's two settings will differ.
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The season sensor will display the current astronomical or meteorological season (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter) based on the user's setting in the configuration file.

For information on the difference between astronomical and meteorological seasons please see the link below:

All information about how the seasons work was taken from Wikipedia:

{% linkable_title Configuration %}

To enable the sensor, add the following lines to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
sensor:
  - platform: season
    type: astronomical

{% configuration %} type: description: "Type of season definition. Options are meteorological or astronomical." required: false type: string default: astronomical {% endconfiguration %}