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Archive for March 20th, 2007

The Door into Winter

Posted by george on 20th March 2007

Santa Barbara , originally uploaded by Grillmaster

Tonight Spring officially begins in the United States on the Vernal Equinox.

That’s how seasons are measured in California, where the differences between February and March and then between March and April are too slight to say “Spring has begun”. Here in Sweden the shifts in weather are so obvious you date the start of a season according to the weather, no matter what the date is.

Sunday in California the temperature was still in the 60’s or 70’s and the skies sunny. Since then it’s been raining and its cooler. But Spring starts tonight.

Stockholm, originally uploaded by KurtQ

Coming in from the airport yesterday, it was raining here in Stockholm. The snow is gone, but the temperature is only a couple of degrees above freezing. The official definition of Spring in Sweden is when the daily temperature stays above freezing.

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