Vernal equinox

• In the Northern Hemisphere winter officially ended at 1:14 a.m. ET on Tuesday, March 20, 2012—the vernal equinox, or spring equinox—making today the first day of spring. (See spring equinox pictures.
(National Geographic)
• Google is celebrating the first official day of spring with a homepage doodle designed by Finnish fashion house Marimekko.
(PC Magazine)
• NOAA's U.S.
(The Christian Science Monitor)
• A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the Spring. - Sara Teasdale Today we have come to the Vernal Equinox. This is the midpoint between the Solstices, the point when night and day are equal.
(The Vernal Equinox - DAILY KOS)
• The first day of spring arrived Tuesday with the 2012 Vernal Equinox, heralding the end of a winter that, for most of us, wasnt.
(Int'l Business Times)
• Spring is officially here, and the days are getting warmer and longer.
(New York Daily News)
• The Spring equinox arrived at 10:14 p.m. Alaska Standard Time Monday.
(Alaska Dispatch)
• Spring has sprung a bit earlier than usual - in fact, its the earliest vernal equinox in over a century.
(International Business Times)
• Across much of the United States, this has been an unusually mild winter, especially for those living east of the Mississippi. Not a few people have noted that spring seems to have come early this year.
(Huffington Post)
• But the vernal equinox eliminates any doubt about which season we are in. On March 20 at 1:14 a.m.
(Washington Post)