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Meteorological spring gets underway on Saturday, March 1, while the March equinox marks the beginning of astronomical spring, which is at 5:01 a.m. EST on Thursday, March 20. Tulips growing in a ...
Meteor showers will be few and far between during the first half of 2025, but two will peak in the spring sky. The Lyrids will unfold first on the night of Monday, April 21, into Tuesday, April 22 ...
Equinox at the site of Pizzo Vento, Fondachelli Fantina, Sicily. Dita e Verës or Verëza is the Albanian pagan feast that celebrates the spring equinox: the beginning of the spring-summer period. It is traditionally celebrated throughout Albanian inhabited territories, also officially in Albania.
The spring equinox is in March in the Northern Hemisphere and in September in the Southern Hemisphere, while the summer solstice is in June in the Northern Hemisphere and in December in the Southern Hemisphere. Spring and "springtime" refer to the season, and also to ideas of rebirth, rejuvenation, renewal, resurrection and regrowth.
Vernal equinox and autumnal equinox: these classical names are direct derivatives of Latin (ver = spring, and autumnus = autumn). These are the historically universal and still most widely used terms for the equinoxes, but are potentially confusing because in the southern hemisphere the vernal equinox does not occur in spring and the autumnal ...
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The Met Office explains the difference between meteorological spring and astronomical spring
The first point of Aries, also known as the cusp of Aries, is the location of the March equinox (the vernal equinox in the northern hemisphere, and the autumnal equinox in the southern), used as a reference point in celestial coordinate systems. In diagrams using such coordinate systems, it is often indicated with the symbol ♈︎.