Vernal in a sentence

However, due to intercalary months or leap months falling after the vernal equinox, Passover sometimes starts on the second full moon after vernal equinox, as in 2016.

The solar year is the time between the vernal commences, and the full moon after the vernal commences is the first of the year.

Ephemeral ponds — which are also called vernal pools — first appear in winter as water collects in depressions and shallow basins in the forest.

On February 21, Azerbaijan marks the first Tuesday before Novruz, a spring feast that marks the vernal equinox.

She then became planning and environmental coordinator for BLM Utah in its Green River District in Vernal.

Vernal pools are vulnerable and not well-protected under current state and federal laws.

Dolores was born the daughter of Vernal Huff and Marjorie Huff (Burton) on July 20, 1946.

Easter Sunday generally falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the vernal (or 'Spring) equinox.

From around 2200 BC until just before the time of Christ, the constellation of Aries housed the sun on the vernal equinox.

In the springtime, vernal pools are fascinating places to visit because they’re full of amphibians, egg masses, water bugs and more.

So then the New Year occurred not at the end of December but in March at the time of the vernal equinox, which in 2024 will be on March 19. Babylonians would have a religious festival named Akitu, from the Sumerian term for barley.

The vernal equinox, occurring on March 19 to 21, signals the moment when the Earth’s axis aligns with its orbit around the sun, resulting in equal daylight and darkness across both hemispheres.

The Westerly Morris Men38th Annual Vernal Equinox sunrise dance at the summit of Lantern Hill in North Stonington on Tuesday, March 19, 2024.

Chronic wasting disease, or CWD, first showed up in Utah in 2002 when a buck mule deer killed during the rifle hunt near Vernal tested positive.

Dark watermarks on tree trunks show where knee-deep vernal pools — seasonal freshwater wetlands — fill up in springtime, nurturing salamanders and frogs.

Most of the new sites are also billed as more remote, though camp managers in Steinaker near Vernal and East Canyon near Ogden said they are better described as an extension of existing campground loops (which could make those showers really interesting).

On the vernal equinox, the sun rises directly over the central tower at Angkor Wat in Cambodia.

That is the exact moment of the vernal equinox, the astronomical beginning of spring.

There are many residents of vernal ponds, but perhaps best-known are the vocal frogs.

To have this conjunction on the same day as the Spring equinox is rather auspicious for your love and sex life—the vernal equinox is a fertility festival in many pagan traditions!