One of my favourite places to see the hares is at Uffington White Horse in Oxfordshire, though they can be found all over the UK. Mad march hares can be seen sprinting across the brown fields, and boxing off unwanted lovers as the mating season gets underway in earnest. Blossom will be erupted from every tree and hedgerow, and the forest floor begins to be carpeted with primroses and anemones, celandine and of course daffodils, which spring up everywhere along verges and gardens as well as the wild with equal ease and sunny glory. March wind and rain may still keep many of us indoors on some days, but if we venture out into the wild we will be surprised by what we encounter. This is a time of youthful exuberance in nature, when all of the green world seems to be springing back into life. The spring equinox this year falls on the 20th of March. It is important to do this so that there is not a gradual drift of date through the seasons.įor the same reason the precise time of the equinoxes are not the same each year.Danu Forest delves into Celtic spirituality, folklore and traditions, offering practical tips to transform the season and celebrate the spring equinox. Every 4 years, we have a leap year where another day is added to our calendar to make up for the 4 missing quarters. The Earth takes approximately 365.25 days to go around the Sun, yet our year is 365 days. The reason is due to the time the Earth takes to go around the Sun and our calendar. Why do the equinoxes not always occur on the same day each year? The posh name for Spring Equinox is Vernal Equinox.Įquinoxes do not always occur on the same day each year, and generally will occur about 6 hours later each year, with a jump of a day (backwards) on leap years. The North Pole begins to lean toward the sun again. Moving from the southern to the northern hemisphere. The Spring Equinox is the first day of spring season and occurs when the sun passes the equator
The posh name for the Autumn Equinox is Autumnal Equinox Night have approximately the same length. The North Pole begins to tilt away from the sun. The Autumn Equinox is the first day of the autumn season and occurs when the sun passes the equator moving from the northern to the southern hemisphere. How many times a year does a Equinox occur? The name is derived from the Latin aequus (equal) and nox (night), because at the equinox the night and day are nearly equally long. This means that day length is exactly the same (12 hours) at all points on the earth's surface on these days (except right at each pole, where it will be about to change from permanent light to dark, or vice versa). This happens on just two days of the year, the spring and autumn equinoxes. the line form the N to S poles) is exactly parallel to the direction of motion of the earth around the sun. The dates of zero tilt of the Earth's equator correspond to the Spring Equinox and Autumn Equinox.Įquinoxes occur when the axis of rotation of the earth (i.e. As the Earth travels around the Sun in its orbit, the north to south position of the Sun changes over the course of the year due to the changing orientation of the Earth's tilted rotation axes.
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