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What does Spring mean to you?

Most years when we get over January we start to see signs of early spring bulbs coming through.

Some years it's even earlier than that, leaving many of us wondering "when does spring start"?

In the meteorological calendar, spring will always start on 1 March and end on 31 May. The science of our seasons is a matter of degrees - 23 and a half of them to be precise. That small angle of tilt in the axis of the earth as it orbits around the sun is what takes our planet on a year-long journey through the seasons.

So have you noticed any signs of spring? Some listeners have been giving us their thoughts on what spring means to them.

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