{"id":21277,"date":"2021-03-01T21:18:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T02:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=21277"},"modified":"2021-03-01T21:18:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T02:18:24","slug":"climatological-spring-has-sprung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2021\/03\/climatological-spring-has-sprung\/","title":{"rendered":"Climatological spring has sprung!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/marshallshepherd\/2016\/03\/01\/march-1st-is-the-start-of-spring-sort-of-how-meteorological-and-astronomical-seasons-differ\/?sh=70000bd72835&amp;fbclid=IwAR1-m6hl1kv7qaH3rrJnFWA16zvZPCzEv2LbCQyxk_taMMuu8db1eIhiDnQ\">article<\/a> in <em>Forbes.com<\/em> by Dr. Marshall Shepherd of UGA. Happy spring!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/Spring-pink-tree-flower_-_West_Virginia_-_ForestWander.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/Spring-pink-tree-flower_-_West_Virginia_-_ForestWander.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/Spring-pink-tree-flower_-_West_Virginia_-_ForestWander.jpg 640w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/Spring-pink-tree-flower_-_West_Virginia_-_ForestWander-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/Spring-pink-tree-flower_-_West_Virginia_-_ForestWander-207x138.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Source: ForestWander Nature Photography\/Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":3208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21278,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21277\/revisions\/21278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}