March 20, 20141145 GMT
The Weather Channel Current Temperature Map
The Vernal (Spring) Equinox occurs at the same time all over the world because the sun is moving from south to northern hemisphere. However, depending on what time zone one lives it will be different.
The exact time of the equinox in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT/UT):
Thursday, March 20, 2014 at 16:57 GMT/UTC
Google (click here) has marked the first day of spring with one of its famous doodles – in this case, a charming little blobman watering a handful of lovely flowers. Google’s chap obviously doesn’t live in England, which has suffered its wettest winter in 250 years and where the daffodils definitely don’t need watering.
But there’s also something curiously dated about announcing the start of spring after daffodils, crocuses and other buds of spring have been out for several months in some parts of the country. 20 March is the spring equinox which, in the astronomical system of seasons, is the first day of spring....
A lamb frolicking in the spring sunshine. 20 March marks the spring
equinox, the astronomical start of the season Photograph: Andrew
Hasson/AlamyAnd in Australia:
Thursday 22:00 EDT
A tropical low embedded within the monsoon trough should approach QLD (Queensland) bringing heavy rain and strong winds. A high pressure ridge should direct moisture laden breezes towards the coast bringing showers...
Coastal Strong Wind/Gale Warning
Thu 20 Mar 2014
Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology Queensland Updated Marine Wind
Warning
Summary for Queensland
Issued at 10:17 pm EST
on Thursday 20 March 2014
for the period until
midnight EST Friday 21 March 2014.
Wind Warnings for Thursday 20 March
Strong Wind Warning for the following area:
Mackay Coast
Cancellation for the following areas:
Cooktown Coast, Cairns Coast, Townsville Coast and Capricornia Coast
The next Marine Wind Warning Summary will be issued when required.
Coastal Strong Wind/Gale Warning
Thu 20 Mar 2014
Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology
Victoria
Marine Wind Warning Summary for Victoria
Issued at 10:48 pm EDT on Thursday 20 March 2014
for the period until midnight EDT Friday 21 March 2014.
Wind Warnings for Thursday 20 March
Strong Wind Warning for the following area:
East Gippsland Coast
Wind Warnings for Friday 21 March
Strong Wind Warning for the following areas:
Port Phillip, Western Port, Gippsland Lakes, West Coast, Central Coast, Central
Gippsland Coast and East Gippsland Coast
The next marine wind warning summary will be issued by 5:10 am EDT Friday.I hope the families find peace. I have to wonder the toll on their health from the stress of uncertainty.
Australian authorities (click here) announced they may have had a breakthrough in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Thursday when a pair of foreign objects showed up in satellite imagery just west of Australia.
20/03 11:55 CET
A Norwegian ship (click here) has reached the area in the southern Indian Ocean where plane debris from the missing Malaysia airliner may have been spotted.
The car carrier was on its way from Madagascar to Melbourne when it got a request from Australian authorities to assist in investigating.
Earlier on Thursday, Malaysian authorities confirmed that two objects had been sighted on Australian satellite images that could be related to the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.
“Every effort is being made to locate the objects seen in the satellite imagery. It must be stressed that these sightings, while credible, are still to be confirmed,” Malaysian MInister of Transport, Hishammuddin Hussein, said at a news conference.
It is understood the images were taken on March 16 but when asked to confirm this, Hussein said he “couldn’t verify the date the images were taken”.
