Today is March 1, and that means that it is now climatological spring. What a crazy winter it has been! Climatologists tie the start of spring to the beginning March for a number of reasons. Originally it was done for convenience when people had to do their climate average calculations by hand, but now you can also see that this date does a good job of separating the winter coldest quarter from the spring transition season. You can read more about it in this 2016 article in Forbes.com by Dr. Marshall Shepherd of UGA. Happy spring!
