First Day of Spring!
Posted: 20 Mar 2014, 12:40Today the northern hemisphere is celebrating the first day of spring, an event marked by the spring - or vernal - equinox. Humans have been celebrating this day in various forms for thousands of years, but what actually is an equinox?
In the most basic terms an equinox is when the length of the night and the length of the day are roughly equal. There are two equinoxes (one in March for the beginning of spring and one in September for the beginning of autumn) and the word itself comes from the Latin for equal (‘aequus’) and night (‘nox’).
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien ... 04647.html
Google has marked the first day of spring with one of its famous doodles – in this case, a charming little blobman watering a handful of lovely flowers. Google’s chap obviously doesn’t live in England, which has suffered its wettest winter in 250 years and where the daffodils definitely don’t need watering.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ ... dle-season
pic of the daffs on Castle meadow in Norwich ...
In the most basic terms an equinox is when the length of the night and the length of the day are roughly equal. There are two equinoxes (one in March for the beginning of spring and one in September for the beginning of autumn) and the word itself comes from the Latin for equal (‘aequus’) and night (‘nox’).
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien ... 04647.html
Google has marked the first day of spring with one of its famous doodles – in this case, a charming little blobman watering a handful of lovely flowers. Google’s chap obviously doesn’t live in England, which has suffered its wettest winter in 250 years and where the daffodils definitely don’t need watering.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ ... dle-season
pic of the daffs on Castle meadow in Norwich ...