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2024 Spring Equinox In New Hampshire Will Be TODAY, i.e., Tuesday, March 19, 11:06 PM Tonight (Eastern).

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by Anura Guruge
on March 19, 2024

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The Spring Equinox can happen on March 19, 20 or 21.

So, March 19 seems a tad only. But, notice it is happening LATE AT NIGHT. Already March 20 in Greenwich, England. It was also on March 19 in 2020. So, not that rare. But, for us in New Hampshire, it falls most often on March 20.

Last year it was ULTRA SNOWY. This year NO SNOW — ice out (earliest on record) already declared.

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Click to ENLARGE. A useful diagram that I created many years ago.

Sunrise & Sunset Times for Concord, New Hampshire around the
2024 Spring Equinox on March 19.
(From Time-and-Date).

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Note that daylight is NOT exactly 12 hours!
If anything we get closer to 12 hours 3 days earlier.
There is a reason for that. It is our latitude above the equator.
If we were closer to the equator it would have been closer to 12 hours.
See this explanation in Time-and-Date.

Click to ENLARGE. To remind you what it is all about. From ‘Wikipedia’.

As has been my custom for years let me also please share at least ONE alluring ‘Allegory of Spring‘.

From Wikipedia.

Enjoy YOUR Spring Equinox 2023.

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Don’t Get Used To ‘June 19th’ — The ‘Juneteenth Federal Holiday’ — Being On A Monday. Next Time Will Be In 2028.

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by Anura Guruge
on June 19, 2023

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UNLIKE Memorial Day & Labor Day, Juneteenth is NOT a ‘every year on a Monday‘ Federal Holiday.

Juneteenth — per the name is on June 19.
Period.

It is like Christmas being on December 25th.

Celebrating Juneteenth on another day is nonsensical BUT that has ALREADY started to happen, in some states, given the U.S. with 3-day Holiday weekends. So YES, a few States are OBSERVING Juneteenth on the 3rd Friday of the year. That is STUPID.

Next time June 19th falls on a Monday is 2028. Five years from now. A Leap Year, in between, jogged that forward.

So, don’t get used to Juneteenth on Mondays. Next year & for the following few it will NOT be on a Monday. OK? Got that?

You might be interested in this post from 2 years ago.

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2023 Spring Equinox In New Hampshire Will Be On Monday, March 20, 05:24pm (Eastern).

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by Anura Guruge
on March 19, 2022

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Click to ENLARGE.
Click to ENLARGE. A useful diagram that I created many years ago.

Sunrise & Sunset Times for Concord, New Hampshire around the
2023 Spring Equinox on March 20.
(From Time-and-Date).

Click to ENLARGE. From ‘timeanddate.com’.

Note that daylight is NOT exactly 12 hours!
If anything we get closer to 12 hours 3 days earlier.
There is a reason for that. It is our latitude above the equator.
If we were closer to the equator it would have been closer to 12 hours.
See this explanation in Time-and-Date.

Click to ENLARGE. To remind you what it is all about. From ‘Wikipedia’.
Spring Festival Gala Chinese style.

As has been my custom for years let me also please share at least ONE alluring ‘Allegory of Spring‘.

Enjoy YOUR Spring Equinox 2023.

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2022 U.S. ‘Labor Day’ On September 6 Is Late, But Earlier Than Last Year.

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by Anura Guruge
on August 9, 2021

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It feels late BUT it is easy to forget that last year’s was on September 7. It was also on September 7th in 2015 & 2009.

September 7 is as late as it can be.

It is always the 1st Monday of September. So, it can fall between September 1 & September 7 — & as my table shows, it has.

Yes, if you study it you can see the pattern BETWEEN leap years. Look at 2000 to 2003. It was going down by a day: 4, 3, 2 & 1. Then came a leap year. That set it back to 6. Then it was 5, 4, 3 … & then another leap year. Got it?

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