Springtime

At 11:20 this morning "the tilt of the Earth's axis is inclined neither away from nor towards the Sun, the center of the Sun being in the same plane as the Earth's equator."
Astronomers refer to this day as the "northward equinox." "The subsolar point (the place on the Earth's surface where the center of the Sun is exactly overhead) crosses the Equator moving northward at the March equinox." (Apparently the term "vernal" was too ethnocentric.)

The rest of us call this day "the first day of spring."

Calling it spring, however, does not make it so. Certainly not in Cleveland, Ohio, where we have another 40 days to endure before the last frost date arrives.