Happy Autumnal Equinox - 2015 :D

 

Welcome Autumn (and so long Summer)....

Autumn officially arrived at 4:22 AM EDT (8:22 UTC) - 10 minutes before I woke up this morning.  It's one of those bittersweet events because it mean Summer is over.  The tradeoff is cooler temperatures.  I don't think it's a truly even exchange :O

Aside from the weather, the days will be getting shorter with fewer hours of daylight.  Soon enough, my post-work runs will be in the dark.  That's one change I certainly won't be looking forward to with open arms.

But the big payoff of Fall is Color!  I can't wait for the leaves to start changing colors - and falling (now raking them is an entirely different matter) - haha.

Happy Autumn!

happy autumnal equinox - 2014!

or just plain "happy autumn!"

here, on the east coast, the autumnal equinox arrived last night at 10:29 pm - which is 2:29 am this morning, greenwich mean time.  while we could claim yesterday as the first day of fall, the dramatic overnight drop in temperature pretty clearly sides with today as the official start!

it's one of only two days during the year (along with the spring equinox in march) that has the number of daylight hours equal to the number of nighttime ones.  but in contrast to the spring, each new day going forward will have fewer minutes of daylight until we reach the winter solstice in december - the shortest day of the year.

so get out there and enjoy that little bit of chill in the air :D

happy spring - 2014 vernal equinox has arrived :D

spring officially arrives here on the east coast at 12:57 pm!  given the brutal winter we've slogged through over the last few months, it may actually take the weather gods a bit longer to get the message.  but for the moment, the temperature should crawl into the 50s - and, hopefully, stay above freezing for the next few days or so :D

i'm going to celebrate the arrival of spring by running in shorts this afternoon.  i ran in shorts last saturday - a quick glimpse of spring - only to see it drop 20 degrees the next morning (just in time for the nyc half).  but a few days of warm weather - plus a little sunshine - and winter will start to seem like an unpleasant memory.  that said, weather forecasts say temps are headed back into the 30's on monday... so carpe diem!

get out there and enjoy some spring weather today :D