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Sunrise between the stones at
Stonehenge on the
Winter Solstice in the mid 1980s. |
So I've been right all along, winter begins December 1st. Well it may not be according to the calendar as printed which identifies December 21st as the first day of winter, the Winter Solstice in particular. Not for me though on which I've proclaim in a
previous blog post. I heard this from the Meteorologist on FOX News last Sunday morning: December first is the first day of Meteorological Winter. Not that I saw a single weatherman dancing in the street.
Winter is often defined by meteorologists to be the three calendar months with the lowest average temperatures. This corresponds to the months of December, January and February in the Northern Hemisphere, and June, July and August in the Southern Hemisphere (
Wikipedia). With the wacky weather we've been experiencing over the last 2 or 3 weeks, multi-layered clothing and frozen fingers to light jackets and the car windows rolled down I'd say that climate change can be interesting.
