{"id":97158,"date":"2020-03-19T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=97158"},"modified":"2020-03-18T20:54:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T00:54:51","slug":"first-day-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=97158","title":{"rendered":"First Day of Spring!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cherry blossoms. Spring is also underway in many parts of the U.S. (Wallpapers 13)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today is the Vernal Equinox. It usually occurs on the 20th or 21st, but this year it happens on the 19th… Later on tonight. According to the Farmer’s Almanac, the last time it happened before the 20th was in 1896. As “equinox” indicates, the day and the night should nearly be equal. Then the days become longer than nights until the Autumnal Equinox.<\/p>\n

The sun rises due east and sets due west on this day. If you could mark these locations, you’d have a solar marker that you’d be able to use to help with growing\/harvesting planning.<\/p>\n

From the Farmer’s Almanac:<\/span><\/p>\n

On the March equinox, the Sun crosses the celestial equator from south to north. It\u2019s called the \u201ccelestial equator\u201d because it\u2019s an imaginary line in the sky above the Earth\u2019s equator.<\/p>\n

If you were standing on the equator, the Sun would pass directly overhead on its way north.<\/p>\n

Equinoxes are the only two times a year that the Sun rises due east and sets due west for all of us on Earth!<\/p>\n

While the Sun passes overhead, the tilt of the Earth is zero relative to the Sun, which means that Earth\u2019s axis neither points toward nor away from the Sun. (Note, however, that the Earth never orbits upright, but is always tilted on its axis by about 23.5 degrees.)<\/p>\n

After the spring equinox, the Northern Hemisphere tilts toward the Sun, which is why we start to get longer, sunnier days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This post provided at ninja’s request. The Farmer’s Almanac provides more details<\/a> on the spring equinox. The Article itself provides additional details related to the seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is the Vernal Equinox. It usually occurs on the 20th or 21st, but this year … First Day of Spring!<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97180,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97158\/revisions\/97180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}