Earliest spring equinox in 124 years brings planetary entertainment
March 19, 2020
If you're stuck at home this week during the Wuhan Virus(covid19) outbreak, the planets and our moon are providing some early morning entertainment. Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and a crescent moon will be clustered together in the southeastern sky just before daybreak. Mercury will peek above the horizon.
All this is happening amid the earliest spring equinox in 124 years
The vernal equinox, which marks the beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere - and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere - will occur late Thursday night in the U.S. That's the earliest since 1896.
I saw my first bumble bee a few days ago & I saw one the next day , it was quite big so it was probably a queen looking for somewhere to start a colony.