Vernal Equinox Comes to Northern Hemisphere on March 20, 2009

The vernal equinox will come to the Northern Hemisphere on March 20, 2009 marking one of two annual dates when the day and night are of equal lengths.  The other equinox, called the autumnal equinox, occurs in September. " Equinox literally means "equal night". On the...

The first day of fall, daylight savings time change 2008

Every year the first day of fall is marked by the autumnal equinox; in 2008 the autumnal equinox occurs on September 22 at 15:44 GMT/UTC.   While we refer to the date of autumnal equinox as “the first...

From Semana Santa to Noche de la Primavera and the Spring Equinox, Mexico is ...

During one of the last discussions I attended at South by Southwest last week, Javier Hernandez mentioned that the Nuevo Leon Tourism site was about to add details on the celebration of Semana Santa which culminates on Easter Sunday.I paid them a visit this morning but came...

In Like A Lion

Winters final rage against the coming of the Spring dumped 25 centimeteres of snow on us between Saturday and Sunday. That meant three shovelings in order to clean up the mess. What a dump on the final weekend before Spring arrives. Largest snowfall ever recorded.

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