Today is spring equinox: Night and day are equals
Forecast calls for truly springlike weather here in season’s first week.
The universe is calling winter kaput today as the sun’s rays cross Earth’s celestial equator, a nd day a nd ni g ht f i ni sh a s equals.
March 20 is the spring equinox, the astronomical end of the darkest, coldest days of the year.
And while most of America set the clock forward one hour March 12, the equinox is nature’s promise that earlier sunrises and later sunsets are imminent. The sun rises due east and sets due west on the equinox.
“It means from now on, for the next six months, the days will be longer than the nights,” said Sam Storch, a retired astronomy professor and member of the Astronomical Society of the Palm Beaches. “It is an opportunity to point out that the ancients were more in touch with how things changed in the sky than we are,