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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.
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
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
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
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