What is winter?

[Tom Zurinskas]

I like the "popular" breakdown for seasons better than the solstice breakdown.  It seems more reasonable according to temperatures.  But I've never seen it described as such in print before.  And I've never heard that "forecasters mostly define it" that way.

The problem now is when they say a season, what do they mean?  I'll assume solstice based.

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
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> There are the solar seasons, that start at a solstice or equinox, and
> there are the popularly defined seasons:
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> Winter: December, January, February
> Spring: March, April, May
> Summer: June, July, August
> Fall: September, October, November
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> Here in Indiana, Summer starts with the Indy 500 and ends at Labor Day.
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> Herb
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> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
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>> 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."
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>> Forecasters are changing the seasons. First I've heard about that.
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>> Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
>> see truespel.com phonetic spelling
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