Your car? Well, yeah. It's a crossover SUV, but that's not the Equinox I'm talking about today... this is the Vernal Equinox; the start of spring in the northern hemisphere. It has been cooler than normal the 7 weeks (so far) we have been in Arizona. We had to run heat again this morning; only 3 days we haven't had the heat on at some point during the day.
There will be almost equal amounts of daylight and darkness today, and gradually increasing daylight until the Summer Solstice. The Equinox isn't "a day," but rather a time. Here in Phoenix, the actual time of the Equinox will be at 2:24 this afternoon. Of course, Mother Nature is not swayed by the timing of all this; she will run hot and cold when she darn well feels like it.
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As we used to say when I lived in Alaska: it only gets better from here. My friends up there tell me about six feet of snow in their yard right now though, so “spring” is a few weeks away yet. Up there it is called breakup, not spring, as all the snow melts and the frozen rivers “break up”.
The years we worked in Yellowstone and the Tetons exposed us to breakup... or "ice out." As the ice breaks up in Yellowstone Lake and starts flowing down the Yellowstone River, it sounds like a thousand screaming girls... eerie!
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