"Len Wood" wrote in message
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On Feb 24, 10:14 am, "Roger Smith" wrote:
"Len Wood" wrote in message

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It's pretty obvious as Spring arrives the weather will warm.

Len
in tropical Wembury
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Unfortunately, Len, this does not look likely to happen this coming
Monday,
at least here.

Roger
in sopping Farnborough

We are into trying to define Spring here Roger.
It's a moveable feast. Climatologically it could begin on 1st March.
But then there is the vernal equinox on 21st March.
Will was suggesting the latter 'when the sun moves north of the
equator'.

Len
Wembury, SW Devon

Len, I know, but...

Small correction - the vernal equinox falls on 20th March. Except as far as
the churches are concerned, it does not fall again on 21st March until, I
believe, around the year 2107.

Roger

PS However I have seen a New Zealand calendar for 2010 in which the autumn
equinox (sic) is listed as 21st March. But they are 13 hours ahead of us
and the actual time of the equinox is 20.18 UT(Z?) on the 20th.

PS 2 Steady rain again here, after just a gloomy 3 hours or so.