Sentences with phrase «vernal equinox day»
Overnight trading in Asia was relatively quite, with the markets in Japan closed for Vernal Equinox Day celebrations, the region - wide MSCI Asia ex-Japan index added 0.28 % by 07:00 GMT.
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It's not a coincidence that March 25 (the destruction of Sauron and the ring) falls on the feast of the Annunciation / ~ vernal equinox / which was the traditional new year's day (from 525AD) until it was later reset to January 1.
On March 20, as on every vernal equinox, schoolchildren learn and the media proclaim that day and night are equal everywhere.
Technically, Spring falls just after the Vernal Equinox, when day and night are each 12 hours long as the Sun's center crosses the equator on its way north.
So for ease of comparison, in my plots I generally show the number of days from the vernal equinox to account for it.
At last — the first day of spring, the Vernal Equinox, from the Latin equus (equal) and nox (night), the transition day from winter to spring when the sun crosses the celestial equator on its way north along the ecliptic, when, all over the world, days and nights are approximately equal.
In an astronomical sense, the first day of spring occurs on the vernal equinox, when the hours of the day are almost exactly evenly split between daylight and night.
The vernal equinox occurs as the sun passes over the equator from Earth's perspective and the Northern Hemisphere begins to tilt toward the sun, leading to longer days in the north and shorter days in the south.
While the day - to - day variations in weather are much more complex, the vernal equinox is a sign that warmer days are on the way.
As we said last year on Good Friday, there are five nationwide holidays in this country: Canada Day (July 1), Labour Day (1st Monday in September), Christmas Day (December 25), New Year's Day (January 1)-- and Good Friday, today (which is two days prior to Easter, which in turn falls, roughly speaking, on the first Sunday after the first full moon, after the vernal equinox).
More preciseley, we are planning to switch the Beta as the production server around Saint Joseph's Day and the vernal equinox, in other words, around the official beginning of spring.
The scientific term is the Vernal Equinox, which is one of the two days each year the sun shines most directly on the equator.
Last week: The vernal equinox marked the start of spring on the day of yet another high school shooting at Great Mills in Maryland.
In earlier times, the vernal equinox was an important day to those who worked the land because it signified the beginning of the season of regeneration and growth.