{"id":29749,"date":"2026-03-02T21:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T02:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=29749"},"modified":"2026-03-02T22:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T03:07:14","slug":"happy-beginning-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2026\/03\/happy-beginning-of-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy beginning of climatological spring!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As you know if you have read this blog for a while, March 1 marks the official start of climatological spring, which runs from March 1 through May 31. Of course, signs of spring have been all around us here in the Southeast already, but you can expect to see a rapid increase in leaves and blooms in the next couple of weeks as temperatures ramp up quite a bit. So happy spring to all of you who celebrate! You can read more about it at <em>EarthSky<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/earth\/first-day-of-spring-season-meteorological-vs-astronomical\/?mc_cid=913dc32c72\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/03\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/03\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/03\/image.png 800w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/03\/image-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2026\/03\/image-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you know if you have read this blog for a while, March 1 marks the official start of climatological spring, which runs from March 1 through May 31. Of course, signs of spring have been all around us here in the Southeast already, but you can expect to see a rapid increase in leaves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":29750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29749","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=29749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29755,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29749\/revisions\/29755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}