March brings Worm Moon, vernal equinox

FROM TODAY'S PRINT EDITIONS:

March arrives at midnight. The third month of the year sees average high temperatures for Baltimore rise from 49 degrees to 59, while the average lows climb back from below freezing (29 degrees) to 38. It can get hot. Record highs climb from 80 (on the 1^st in 1972) to 90 degrees (on the 29^th in 1945). The record lows rise from 5 degrees (1873) to 21 degrees (most recently in 1982). The full Sap, Crow or Worm Moon rises on the 19^th. They all hint of spring. Spring itself arrives with the equinox, at 7:21 p.m. on the 20^th.

(SUN PHOTO: Nanine Hartzenbusch, 2006)