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Show f I - , h I I I I r . I FV i I I fl Hanging out Jacob Kopenhefer, 6, of West Bountiful enjoys hanging out at the park on a nice spring-like day. Davis County has been enjoying warmer than usual weather with a bit of springtime rain thrown in. It's officially spring today summer solstice, when it is farthest north, and at the beginning of winter, winter solstice, when it is farthest south. Wiggins also noted that while Utahns and others who reside in the northern hemisphere mark the vernal equinox as the beginning of the longer, warmer days of spring, those who live in the southern hemisphere see this event as the start of the shorter, cooler days of fall. Spring officially returned to Utah this morning at 1:48 when the sun passed northward nor-thward through the celestial equator. At least, that's what the people at Hansen Planetarium said. The vernal equinox marks the moment when the sun passes over the imaginary line in space above the earth's equator called the celestial equator. "One way to think of the equinox is as-that as-that time when the hours of daylight and darkness are pretty much equal," said Hansen Planetarium spokesperson Patrick Wiggins. The next such event, the autumnal equinox, will occur when the sun passes southward through the celestial equator next September marking the start of fall. Similarly, there are two times per year when the sun is farthest from the sky's equator at the beginning of summer, |