It might not be showing yet but it’s officially here. Spring is here! The season of rejuvenation and rebirth. The time when nature celebrates the miracle of life and people celebrate the end of Winter and the coming of Summer. Primeval as earth, young as a flower’s seedling and fresh as the morning breeze the most beautiful of all seasons today puts here tender feet on our planets ground. So here are 8 facts about spring to give her a warm welcome.
Spring begins on the Vernal Equinox.
The word Vernal means Spring in Latin while Equinox is the Latin word for equal days. On the first day of Spring the hours of daylight and night are almost equal with daylight being slightly longer. In 2015, the Vernal Equinox happens on the 20th of March.
The Great Sphinx was an equinoctial marker.
A theory in alternative Egyptlogy claims that the great Sphinx of Egupt gazes east, targeting the exact position of the Vernal Equinox sunrise.
In Spring days are getting longer.
During Spring the Earth’s axis is tilted toward the sun wich causes the length of daylight to increase at the hemisphere that aproaches the warm planet.
In Spring wheather is getting warmer.
The daylight hours increase results in a temperature increase which results in warmer weather.
In Spring flowers grow faster and bloom.
Plants respond to temperature and light. Increased temperatures as well as day length have a major influence on the growth and flowering of many plant species.
In Spring animals have babies.
For most middle latitude animals Spring is the time when their newborns have the best chance of survival due to mild wheather and food abundance.
In Spring baby birds learn to sing.
Songbirds learn to sing by hearing their species’ song when they are young and during the first stage of learning they babble more or less like human infants do.
In the southern hemisphere Spring is in Autumn.
In Temperate zone locations such as Australia and New Zealand, spring begins on 1 September and ends 30 November.
