Equinox? Not Here!

One of the milestones of spring is "equinox" - the day we have equal hours of daylight and darkness. After our short days of winter, it's a date I look forward to! 

YAY! SUMMER is coming!!

In school, we were taught that equinox occurred (universally?) on March 21... That would have been the right answer on the science test...

So it has been interesting for me to discover (thanks to my weather app) that this DOESN'T occur on the same date everywhere... In fact, here where I live in eastern Ontario, equinox occurrs earlier - somewhere around March 18 / March 19. On March 18 we had 11 hours and 59 minutes of daylight. Then on March 19 we jumped to 12 hours and 3 minutes.

And so the days get brighter and warmer until late-June, when we start losing minutes of daylight.