Reply to: First day of spring!

[NickFitz]

Smug git.

Just at one with the cosmos

I think it was in 1987 that a load of us (more than five hundred I reckon) turned up at Stonehenge preparing to celebrate the Winter Solstice on 21st December. The English Heritage folk got terribly confused, as the previous year it had been on the 20th. They were fine with opening up the stones to us once they'd realised their mistake, and a good, if extremely cold, time was had by all

[TimberWolf]

British Summer Time starts on the 25th, so things are really starting to crack on towards more clement weather.

[suityou01]

Happy Vernal Equinox everybody!

For those thinking it's tomorrow: the Equinoxes and Solstices change time and thus sometimes date each year due to the fact that the Earth doesn't orbit the Sun in exactly one year. So some years the Vernal Equinox will be on the 20th, other years on the 21st

Smug git.

[NickFitz]

Happy Vernal Equinox everybody!

For those thinking it's tomorrow: the Equinoxes and Solstices change time and thus sometimes date each year due to the fact that the Earth doesn't orbit the Sun in exactly one year. So some years the Vernal Equinox will be on the 20th, other years on the 21st

[TimberWolf]

6 weeks later surely?

That puts the coldest day in the middle of a winter that ends on 1 March, which seems reasonable to me.

Oops, yes. 1st march seems about right after all.

[suityou01]

Spring is sprung
The grass is riz
I wonder where the boidies is?
They say the boids is on the wing.
That's absoid! The wings is on the boid.


Summer's on its way folks!

I like that poem. Used to get quoted that as a kid.

I believe you are a day early though.

[Doggy Styles]

Some people got all hoity toity on here last time I mentioned spring starting around the equinox. Or perhaps it was that start of summer being on mid-summers day. Anyway, for the weathermen, spring started on the 1st March, even if most calendars show it as starting around 20/21/22 of March.

I learnt that statistically the coldest day in the northern hemisphere is 19 January, so having winter ending only 2 weeks later does seem a tad premature. I'm more inclined to go with the Yank and more old fashioned date of the spring equinox too.

6 weeks later surely?

That puts the coldest day in the middle of a winter that ends on 1 March, which seems reasonable to me.

[Sysman]

Happy spring all (even though I thought it started tomorrow).

Sun shining and warm here.

[tractor]

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I really hope new client budgets are just around the corner...

[oscarose]

Happy spring all

[norrahe]

I thought technically it was tomorrow?

Though my first day of spring this year was 1st March. A lovely day. Shame I came off the bike and hurt my ribs.

Nope today!

Happy spring everyone and lovely day it is for it too! (well it is here anyway)

[administrator]

Happy spring everyone. The rooks were "having it" in the trees on the way into the office. The rhubarb in the garden is sprouting and the garden. All is good with the world.

[mudskipper]

google says it's spring. That's authority enough for me.

[amcdonald]

[BrilloPad]

I thought technically it was tomorrow?

Though my first day of spring this year was 1st March. A lovely day. Shame I came off the bike and hurt my ribs.