Depending on who you believe, today or tomorrow is the official first day of spring, 2019. It is that moment where the number of daylight and dark minutes are equal, called the spring or vernal equinox.
Another way of picturing it is that we are exactly half way between the shortest and longest days of the northern hemisphere. That is, halfway between the winter and summer solstices.
I can’t speak for where you are, but here in NorCal the gray skies of winter persist and, if weather guessers are correct, will do so for another week. Global warming has been hard to detect this year.
Normally drought-stricken CA has seen a lot of rain and, in the mountains, snow. Instead of building reservoirs to catch this scarce resource, we’ve let most run off into the ocean. For that stupidity, we thank the state’s human-hating environmentalists.
