What is winter?

[Tom Zurinskas]

Hi Eoin C. Bairéad

I've never seen a first name like that nor last name for that matter.  How do you pronounce it?

You must have missed the part where I spoke of the seasons as per conus USA.  Also the part where redefining the seasons is the observation of most weather forecasters in USA.  And how about the part where this is the "American" Dialect Society.  OK?

In Atlantic City NJ USA, the seasons seem delayed a month because of the affect of the water temps.  Summer is July Aug Sept.  They used to hold the Miss American contest in Sept to bring more folks to the shore for the nice weather and warm ocean.

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
see truespel.com phonetic spelling



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> apart altogether from the southern hemisphere...
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> In fact it's not apart from anything. Because seasons are local. Lots of th=
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> world has two seasons - rain and not-rain.
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> The month and feast names in Irish give some clue to the seasons on an
> island that is, if that's not oxymoron, extremely temperate. The range
> between the hottest day ever on record and the coldest day ever on record i=
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> about 50 =C2=BAC or for those still counting with fingers and two toes, 90 =
> =C2=BAF
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> September is Me=C3=A1n F=C3=B3mhair - literally the middle of Autumn.
> and St Brigid's Day, February 1st is "teacht an Earraigh", the coming of
> Spring.
> So, here in Ireland,
> Spring is February, March, April.
> Summer is May, June, July.
> Autumn is August, September, October.
> and Winter, therefore, is November, December, January.
> So, provided the weather isn't over-extreme, that makes sense, because bang
> in the middle of Winter and Summer we have the solstices.
> and bang in the middle of Spring and Autumn we have the equinoxes.
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> OK?
>
> Eoin
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> On 24 February 2010 11:06, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
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>> Summarizing the =E2=80=9CWhat is winter=E2=80=9D thread in the ADS forum.
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