Today is Spring

Aerospace

I regard February 14th as the true 1st day of Spring, it's bright, the chill is abating, flowers are budding, it's Spring for me Geoff.

As a corrollary, I regard mid May as the beginning of Summer and Mid August as the end of Summer. By mid August leaves are turning brown and you can start to feel a bit of a chill in the air occassionally.

My Mum’s dahlias only stopped flowering a couple of weeks ago so that makes it Autumn, right?

murpho999

March for me as I refuse to accept August, one of the warmest months of the year and peak summer holiday season as Autumn.

Seasons overlap anyway as seen with heavy snow in March last year.

DEFTLEFTHAND

About 5 weeks of winter left.

20th of March is the first day of Spring in the northern hemisphere.

yourdeadwright

No its not 1st of March is the first day of spring ,

RacoonQueen

Aerospace wrote: »

I regard February 14th as the true 1st day of Spring, it's bright, the chill is abating, flowers are budding, it's Spring for me Geoff.

As a corrollary, I regard mid May as the beginning of Summer and Mid August as the end of Summer. By mid August leaves are turning brown and you can start to feel a bit of a chill in the air occassionally.

What chill? Wasn't cold at all this winter. Maybe about 4 or 5 days where you could say there was a chill.

Deebles McBeebles

Your thread title is missing the word 'not'.

Beanntraigheach

The 9th of October is the first day of Spring and I'll fight any man who disagrees! :mad:

Odhinn

Beanntraigheach wrote: »

The 9th of October is the first day of Spring and I'll fight any man who disagrees! :mad:

Will ye now? With the big moon head on ye, like an innocent.

Deebles McBeebles

Call him out Odhinn! Call him out!

Deebles McBeebles

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

Call him out Odhinn! Call him out!

To the YouTube channelmobil!

Odhinn

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

Call him out Odhinn! Call him out!

I will, and I'll close the big dribbly gob on him for good.

Deebles McBeebles

Take the big bauld head ah him with yer pain makers, send 'im up the yard ta da baby jesus.

Thanks be ta Mary.

Odhinn

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

Take the big bauld head ah him with yer pain makers, send 'im up the yard ta da baby jesus.

Thanks be ta Mary.

This is the same man that said the reason his wife had a black baby was that she went for a week to alicante when she was pregnant and laid out in the sun too much.

mikemac2

February 1st is the first day of spring. Going to the river the night before to get rushes and making crosses for St Bridgets Day

everlast75

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

My Mum’s dahlias only stopped flowering a couple of weeks ago so that makes it Autumn, right?

I think that makes it her menopause...

everlast75

everlast75 wrote: »

I think that makes it her menopause...

topper75

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

About 5 weeks of winter left.

20th of March is the first day of Spring in the northern hemisphere.

So spring arrives in Iceland at the same time as the south of Italy?

In Ireland we traditionally go with Feb 1. I'm Irish so that is what I go with.

DEFTLEFTHAND

topper75 wrote: »

So spring arrives in Iceland at the same time as the south of Italy?

In Ireland we traditionally go with Feb 1. I'm Irish so that is what I go with.

Yes, they're different climates obviously but they follow the same seasons.

That old Celtic calendar is not right.

The entire country was taught BS in Primary School.

mad muffin

Mildest winter in memory :eek:

Badly Drunk Boy

mad muffin wrote: »

Mildest winter in memory :eek:

Indeed! I haven't turned on the heating since last March.

Franz Von Peppercorn

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

About 5 weeks of winter left.

20th of March is the first day of Spring in the northern hemisphere.

That’s not meteorological spring. Which starts in March.

The conventions on when the seasons start tend to be taken quite seriously by some, as if it’s a definite scientific law. It’s really a convention.

Franz Von Peppercorn

RacoonQueen wrote: »

What chill? Wasn't cold at all this winter. Maybe about 4 or 5 days where you could say there was a chill.

A chill isn’t the same as cold.

Cee-Jay-Cee

15 degrees showing on the car temp gauge which is warmer than some of the days we had during summer.

Richard Hillman

Winter is over folks, the flowers know first. I reckon we'll get a very stormy couple of months now.

Franz Von Peppercorn

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Yes, they're different climates obviously but they follow the same seasons.

That old Celtic calendar is not right.

The entire country was taught BS in Primary School.

The old Celtic calendar (not just Celtic really) makes sense for length of day and guess what, that’s easier to measure in the past than fluctuating temperatures. February may be colder than November on average, in air temp, but it’s a hell of a lot brighter, particularly in the evening. Sun is warmer now too.

Rubberchikken

i just love global warming:):)

1st February is the start of spring end of story.

murpho999

Jaylee Big Groceries wrote: »

1st February is the start of spring end of story.

It's not the end of the story at all.

Below is from Met Eireann who know a bit about this.

For climatological and meteorological purposes, on the basis of air temperature, seasons are regarded as three – month periods as follows: December to February – winter, March to May – spring, June to August – summer and September to November – autumn. This is a common grouping in the meteorological practice of many countries in the middle and northern latitudes.

Link

branie2

It certainly feels like it

I always send this poem to my sister on the first of March, because her birthday is on the next day (and because I have notions), but it also seems apt on a day like today.

Wordsworth, 'To My Sister'

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