Spring arrives at 10:46 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. Today we’ll have more than 12 hours of daylight. It’s the vernal equinox, when I always think of Dad.

Today we’ll have more light than darkness, more warmth than cold. Today we’ll say goodbye to snowcrete and the Polar Vortex.

Just in time, I can stop wearing gloves, which I donned as recently as a few days ago. Just in time, I can turn my face to the sky (slathered with SPF 50, of course).

“Just in time” implies that I would explode or something if we had to endure more winter weather. And of course, I would not. I would put my head down and keep going.

Nevertheless, it’s been a long, cold winter. At times this season it’s seemed like winter would never end. But today, at least meteorologically, it has. And just in time.