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Egg or broom for the Vernal Equinox?

Wednesday is the last morning of Winter. The Spring (vernal) equinox occurs at 5:58pm today.

That’s on the calendar, for meteorologists and climatologists the Spring season starts March 1 and ends June 1 which marks the start of summer. Think of it as a weather accounting method.

It is a MYTH that you can stand an egg upright on the equinox easier or more often than usual. It has been scientifically proven by many experiments for many decades that it works on ANY day of the year. For some reason others prefer brooms. But the same principle applies.

You CAN balance an egg today or any equinox. But you CAN balance an egg or broom on any other day of the year as well, with no more or less success, it’s just that people usually only give it a try on the equinox.

So if you want to try it today, fine. Just try it again Easter Sunday, and Halloween and Christmas Eve. lol

(Snopes.com image)

Scholastic.com explains:

Accuweather:

Experiments going back at least as far as 1984 have shown the egg and broom standing myth on the equinox is in fact just a myth, gravity doesn’t work that way.

It’s one of those old wives tales, urban myths, internet meme hoaxes that just doesn’t want to die. But this is the information age with facts available from legit sights on the internet so no need to be uninformed or misinformed now a days. One of the main uses of science and the scientific method is to dispel such beliefs.

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