For meteorologists, spring starts Tuesday. But if you Google the word "spring," the response is March 20. You have not gone through a time warp. Tuesday is not March 20. It is March 1. And Google ...
“I know why spring is called spring,” my first-grader announced importantly as he climbed up into bed. “It’s because when the snow melts, everything springs up, out of the ground.” He bounced up ...
March 1 is the start of climatological spring, one of the three ways spring is defined across the globe. Meteorologist Joe Martucci breaks down each of them, and looks at when they occur. For ...