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"Or is it sure someone will tell me I'm wrong. " Not real spring, only meteorological spring. Real spring starts with the vernal equinox which is the 20th March this year. meteorological spring Is based on 3 calendar months and is just done to make year on year comparisons easier for Weather Forecasters and is a recently introduced concept. Traditional (Astronomical) seasons are based on the equinoxes (spring and autumn - equal length days and nights) and solstices (summer and winter - longest and shortest days of the year). | |||
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"Or is it sure someone will tell me I'm wrong. Not real spring, only meteorological spring. Real spring starts with the vernal equinox which is the 20th March this year. meteorological spring Is based on 3 calendar months and is just done to make year on year comparisons easier for Weather Forecasters and is a recently introduced concept. Traditional (Astronomical) seasons are based on the equinoxes (spring and autumn - equal length days and nights) and solstices (summer and winter - longest and shortest days of the year)." Actually that's quite interesting. Every day's a school day, as they say. | |||
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"Or is it sure someone will tell me I'm wrong. Not real spring, only meteorological spring. Real spring starts with the vernal equinox which is the 20th March this year. meteorological spring Is based on 3 calendar months and is just done to make year on year comparisons easier for Weather Forecasters and is a recently introduced concept. Traditional (Astronomical) seasons are based on the equinoxes (spring and autumn - equal length days and nights) and solstices (summer and winter - longest and shortest days of the year). Actually that's quite interesting. Every day's a school day, as they say." Thanks. If you look at a map of the world or globe, we are all aware of the equator, but there are two other lines of importance, the tropics of cancer and Capricorn. Because of the tilt of the Earth, and our trip round the Sun, the sun appears to move between the two tropics (this is why the seasons in the southern hemisphere are the opposite of those in the northern). Because when the apparent movement of the sun over the equator is the point of either more or less than 12 hours of daylight (Spring or Autumn) it means we get more or less energy from the Sun that affects the weather, and also things like germinating of some seeds in the earth. Gardeners have used this to work out when to plant in “Spring” for centuries. It is also used (along with the full moon) to work out when Easter falls each year - which is something like the First Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring equinox- which is why Easter is not a fixed date. | |||
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"Back to naked walks in the woods again " Not yet surely. The sun may be out and its looking a bit Springlike but still bitter cold out there | |||
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"Back to naked walks in the woods again Not yet surely. The sun may be out and its looking a bit Springlike but still bitter cold out there" Thankfully I don't feel the cold too much so I'm normally ok | |||
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"Is there a hosepipe ban yet ? An unofficial one. I mean what nutter is going out into the garden this afternoon, in the freezing cold and heavy rain, to use a hosepipe? | |||
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"Or is it sure someone will tell me I'm wrong. Not real spring, only meteorological spring. Real spring starts with the vernal equinox which is the 20th March this year. meteorological spring Is based on 3 calendar months and is just done to make year on year comparisons easier for Weather Forecasters and is a recently introduced concept. Traditional (Astronomical) seasons are based on the equinoxes (spring and autumn - equal length days and nights) and solstices (summer and winter - longest and shortest days of the year)." | |||
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