The Eve of the Vernal Equinox has Arrived

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The fickle month of March is nearing its end and fickle it has been. We have soared to the mid sixties and been stuck in the low forties. We have seen low elevation snow and warm rays of sunny goodness. It has been stormy and it has been bright. And now we have arrived. We sit on the precipice of the Vernal Equinox. The eve of spring. Tomorrow at 4:58 AM the planet will be equally divided in day and night straight down the center from the two poles. Today and tomorrow will have nearly identical day and night cycles of 12 hours each everywhere on the globe.

Anchorage and Honolulu will each share a day of twelve hours and a night of the same. But only twice a year does this phenomenon happen. Here in the 'Couv' and in all points north of the equator we shall begin our march toward the summer. Our days shall increase and our nights shall decrease. For those of us above the 45th parallel we begin our race to the Solstice. It is a race we always win over our warmer and more southerly friends. Further and further ahead we run until the 21st of June when the southerners will begin their chase to the Autumnal Equinox.

Here in the Great Northwest we endure the long dark nights and the short gloomy days with that incessant drip, drip, drip from the heavens. But now the those nights will start to shrink and the sun will continue its climb up higher into the sky. More and more El Sol will come out and play. Warmer and warmer we shall become. Tomorrow it is springtime and that of course is a good thing.

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Smile my northern latitude friends, for this is our time to shine. By the solstice in June, Anchorage will have 17 hours and 22 minutes of sunshine while Honolulu will only have 13 hours and 26 minutes. Here in America's Vancouver we will enjoy a nice 15 hours and 43 minutes of sunshine on the summer solstice. It all begins tomorrow at 4:58 AM. Springtime is finally here. Each new day will add a minute or two to a daylight. It just keeps getting better.

Soak it up my friends, soak it up.