Vernal Equinox 2018: Know Vernal Equinox Day With Definition & Meaning

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Why Spring Starts Early This Year 2018
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  • Lately, around this moment of year, I often
    acquire characters from people wondering why
    springtime starts very early this year. Many
    folks presume the When is First Day Of Spring
    2018? in the Northern Hemisphere-- also called
    the vernal equinox-- has always come on March 21.
    But this year seems to become an exemption, for
    in 2013 the first day of spring comes on
    Wednesday, March 20 at 1102 UT, or 702 a.m.
    EDT/402 a.m. PDT.

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  • Now this doesn't seem right. When many of us were
    maturing, the first day of spring was
    consistently on March 21, not March 20, right?
    Now, suddenly, spring begins March 20. How did
    that happen?
  • While it's true that we've had the tendency to
    celebrate the beginning of spring on March 21 in
    recent years, stargazers and calendar makers
    alike say that this year, the spring season
    starts eventually earlier, March 20, in all time
    belt in North America.

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Vernal Equinox
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First Day Of Spring
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Unheard of, you might think. But not if you look
at the stats.
  • Actually, did you know that in the course of the
    20th century, March 21 was really the
    exceptionrather than the rule for the first day
    of spring? The vernal equinox landed on March 21
    only 36 out of 100 years. And from 1981 to 2102,
    Americans have (and will) celebrate the first day
    of spring no beyond March 20.

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  • Earth's Equinoxes Solstices (Infographic) In
    2016, those residing in Alaska, Hawaii and the
    Pacific, Mountain and Central time belt will see
    spring begin even earlier on March 19. And in
    2020, it will start on March 19 for the entire
    United States.

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A year is not an even lot of First day of vernal
equinox 2018 days and neither are the seasons.
Earth's year-- the length of your time it takes
to circle the sun once-- lasts about 365.25 days.
To try to achieve a value as close as possible to
the exact length of the year,
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SPRING EQUINOX
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  • our Gregorian Calendar was constructed to give a
    close approximation to the tropical year, which
    is the actual length of time it takes for the
    Earth to complete one orbit around the sun.

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