What is winter?

[victor steinbok]

In other old news, woman literally bites dog.

http://www.startribune.com/local/17247504.html

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On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> The local paper said today that the National Weather Service defines winter as the three months of Dec, Jan, Feb. Searching on the web I find. "Meteorologists in the UK consider winter to be the three coldest months of December, January and February"
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> I like it.  From now on winter starts for me on Dec 1, and spring, summer, and fall have their commensurate 3 months as well.

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