meterological spring

i was so thrilled to discover that there are "meterological" seasons, as opposed to the "real" seasons. who can wait until late june for summer to officially start? that's silly. summer obviously starts on june 1st. likewise, winter is well underway by december 21. once the calendar says december, winter has officially arrived in my opinion. it turns out that the meterological seasons agree with me, which makes today the first day of spring.

check it.

Meteorological seasons are reckoned by temperature, with summer being the hottest quarter of the year and winter the coldest quarter of the year. Using this reckoning, the Roman calendar began the year and the spring season on the first of March, with each season occupying three months. In 1780 the Societas Meteorologica Palatina, an early international organization for meteorology, defined seasons as groupings of three whole months. Ever since, professional meteorologists all over the world have used this definition.^[7] Therefore, in meteorology for the Northern hemisphere, spring begins on 1 March, summer on 1 June, autumn on 1 September, and winter on 1 December.

thanks, wikipedia!

spring is my least favorite season because of the mess (oily puddles, cigarette butts exposed by receding snow banks, rain, mud, surprise snow storms, wah wah waaaah), but it is undeniably exciting when birds come back, flowers bloom, and the sun actually warms your skin. and today, on the first day of spring, we found our first tiny annual buds sticking out of the ground.

despite all my springtime griping, sighting the first green plants always makes my heart leap a little bit.