I recently found out something I didn’t know: how long the spring we’re living through right now lasts exactly—it's just like 92 days and 17 hours. I mean, from the March equinox to the June solstice. Pretty short if I think about it.

What’s interesting is that the spring equinox just passed, on March 20 at 10:46 in the morning ( Eastern Time ). At that moment, the Sun crosses the celestial equator, and boom, spring officially begins in the Northern Hemisphere. Meanwhile, in the south, it's already autumn. Pretty crazy how that works.

Now that we’re in April, the days are still getting longer and the temperatures are rising. The plants are already blooming everywhere, the animals are waking up from hibernation, all that. And it all ends on June 20 when summer arrives.

What surprised me the most is that spring doesn’t always start on the same day. It can be March 19, 20, or 21 depending on the year because the Gregorian calendar doesn’t match the astronomical year exactly. That’s why every four years there are leap years to compensate. Strange details, but they make sense.