Spring equinox has arrived. Here’s what you need to know
For those of us who deal with things with the Goldilocks principle (not very little, and no more than necessary), moderation in the spring is practically perfect.
along with Autumn moderationThis is when we get this balance in the day and night all over the world – from the steam equation line to cold columns – with only about 12 hours of each. No one passes through extremism as you see with Winter coup or Summer coup.
Exactly when will the spring moderation happen?
In 2025, moderation in the spring will be exactly at 9:01 UTC (Coordinated World Time) on Thursday 20 March, According to the Earth’s land. Here is how UTC translates into your time.
Click here to find The fine moment of spring moderation where it is located.
For some, fall into the air
This moderation means falling in the southern hemisphere. This is an evening air look for the Tuokara wine, below the Drakinstein Mountains in Stellinbush, South Africa. David Silverman/Getty Em.
People in the northern hemisphere look for longer days, flower flowers and an explosion of green spaces. But for people who live south of the equator, this moderation means that they are heading to the fall.
So for Chilean, South Africa and Australians, among others, this is the time to embrace cold autumn weather.
For people who reside near the equator in places such as Quito, Ecuador or Singapore, nothing of this is really big. They get approximately 12 hours of daylight and throughout the year.
The spring of moderation has another name
If you hear anyone saying “spring moderation”, this means the same.
The term moderation comes from the Latin word “moderation”, and this means “equality between the day and the night.” Vernal also comes from Latin and means “spring”.
Why does the spring moderation happen?
The original Salvadorian residents offer fire during the celebration of the time of moderation in the spring of 2023 at the archaeological site of Andres in the Zapottan Valley of El Salvador. – Alex Pena/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
The Earth rotates along an imaginary line that extends from the Arctic to the Antarctic. The axis is called, and this rotation is what gives us day and night.
However, the axis tends at 23.5 degrees, NASA also explains. This puts the hemisphere from the planet to get more sunlight than the other for the half -year orbit around the sun. This contradiction in sunlight is what raises seasons.
Impact to the maximum extent in late June and late December. This is the coup, and it has the most extreme differences between the day and the night, especially near the poles. (For this reason, darkness remains for a long time every day during the winter season in places such as Scandinavia and Alaska.)
But since the winter coup three months ago in December, I may have noticed that our days were longer in the northern hemisphere and shorter nights. And now here we are in the spring of moderation!
To move forward, the northern hemisphere will be exposed to more than the southern hemisphere. For this reason, the weather becomes increasingly warmer and we are heading towards the summer coup in June.
Moderation is not exactly “equal”
Time time! It turns out that you are getting a boy more than dark on moderation – and how much this depends on where you are on this planet.
How does this happen when it is supposed to be 12 hours of day and 12 hours?
as Explain the US National Weather Service“Nearly” hours of the day and night are due to the complex way that the sunrise is measured and sunlight is measured in Jonah.
This bending of light rays “causes the sun to appear above the horizon when the actual position of the sun is in the lower horizon.” Today is slightly longer at the upper latitudes of the equator because it takes the sun longer to rise and is close to reaching the columns.
We really got it at the day/night a few days before the official spring moderation. this It is called equilux.
Sites and private celebrations
People surround the Kukulcan Pyramid at the Maya Archaeological site of Yachchin Etza in Yukatan, Mexico, while celebrating moderation in the spring in 2023. – Hugo Borges/AFP/Getty Images
Humans had a love relationship with spring and everything heavenly.
In Mexico, the Mayan site Chichén itzá He has special moderation links. On the site, the impressive pyramid known as El Castillo was aligned so that the shade that determines the shape of a snake of light (kukulcán) steps on moderation.
In England, the mysterious stone structure of Stonehenge was a place for a famous gathering and moderation throughout the ages. English heritage Currently organize events.
On the island of the Mediterranean, Malta, the old Megalite Temple in Mnajdra complex Alignment that the morning sun rays shine in the spring and autumn moderation directly through the main entrance.
Cultures around the world celebrate moderation. Here a few:
Visitors to Potcher enforcement in the Spring of Moderation 2023 enjoy in Yoyogi Park in Tokyo. – Zhang Xiaoyu/xinhua News/Getty Images
In JapanThe Day of Moderation is a general holiday. Many people still adhere to ancient traditions such as visiting family graves and a family reunification contract to celebrate the spring moderation.
Nowruz is the new Persian year. Also known as nauryz, navruz or Nowrouz, it means “a new day”.
It is not a coincidence that falls on the first day of spring. The Iranian calendar is a solar calendar, which means determining time, through astronomical notes, through the movement of the Earth around the sun. Therefore, the first day of the year always begins with the moderation of Vernal.
It is a celebration of the new beginnings: I wish prosperity and welcome to the future while getting rid of the past. For this reason, families use this time to clean their homes and cabinets and buy fresh clothes.
In China, the attempt to stand in a straight position in a straight position is a famous game during the spring moderation, According to Visitbeijing.com. It is believed that the habit belongs to thousands of years, and it is believed that if people can get an egg to stand, they will get good luck. People all over China eat local spring vegetables.
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