Spring is here

Question for the March springers; do you, also, consider Sunday to be the first day of the week?

Monday for this March springer. Always has been. Start of the week when I was in school. Start of the week now too.

Yes..yes...Monday is week start for this poster.

Two seasons in Ireland:

Shite: 1st October - 30th April

Slightly Milder Shite: 1st May - 30th September

No, Monday is.

"Then God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it, because in it he rested from all his work." Genesis 2:2

The "seventh" day, you'll notice, not the first.

But make no mistake, March 1st IS the first day of Spring.

The seasons are a scientific, meteorological matter, not a folklore one. The peaks of heat and cold are what define the seasons, not the equinoxes, as there is a lag in the Sun's energy from the longest, or shortest day, due to the energy retention characteristics of the atmosphere and the land.

In terms of rainfall, temperature, soil productivity, floral and faunal activity, and any other metric you want to assign, February is a Winter month, just as August is not an Autumnal month, nor November a Winter month.

Spring. March.

It does, but that doesn't impact the scientific principle. The extent of heat and cold varies for each region in the hemisphere, of course, but the seasonal max and min still hold up, whether that minimum is -5 degrees or -45.

They are right meteorological speaking . Spring begins on the Vernal equinox

Both Met Eireann and the UK Met Office have March 1st as the 1st day of meteorological spring. Thats good enough for me, and the temperature stats back it up....and yes August to me was always Summer.

Read all the comments and I was taught in school in the eighties, Winter - Nov- Jan, Spring Feb- April, Summer May- July, Autumn Aug - Oct.

Is this traditional division of seasons due to clocks going back ie winter. When all is said and done I think the farmers are the best people to understand the weather patterns as they are out in it all the time.

1hr 41min daylight gained in the evening. An hour roughly in the morning. 2hrs and 40min! And we're not even in Spring yet😛

Imo Spring begins around week 14-21 Feburary ,this week feels milder and generally from now the weather is never as severe you would hope but there is often outliers to this as well.

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