What is winter?

[Herb Stahlke]

In northern Wisconsin they are said to hope that summer comes on a
Sunday so they can enjoy it.

Herb

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Alice Faber <faber at haskins.yale.edu> wrote:
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> Joel S. Berson wrote:
>> At 2/18/2010 08:05 PM, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
>>> A newspaper article today quotes a meteorologist of the National
>>> Weather Service who said that "althought winter officially runs from
>>> Dec 21 to Mar 21, forecasters mostly define it as Dec through Feb."
>>>
>>> Forecasters are changing the seasons.  First I've heard about that.
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>> "As New Englanders know, winter is the longest season of the
>> year."  [Zielinski and Keim, New England Weather, 75.]
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> And how far back does "X has two seasons, winter and road construction" go?
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