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Everything You Thought You Knew About the First Day of Spring is Probably Wrong

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Date: 2015-03-20 20:21:51
Blog: Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal
URL: http://blogs.agu.org/wildwildscience/2015/03/20/everything-you-thought-you-knew-about-the-first-day-of-spring-is-probably-wrong/

Summary:

  The Vernal Equinox (for 2015) occurs at 2245 GMT Friday, and there’s a good chance that just about everything else you were taught about it is wrong. Don’t say it’s the first day of spring, because that’s true only in a traditional sense, and most certainly not a scientific one, and if you live in the Southern Hemisphere it’s wrong on both accounts! The quarter of the year between …

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Don, Friday, GMT, good chance, Knew, quarter, Southern Hemisphere, spring, traditional sense, Uncategorized, Vernal Equinox

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