What is winter?

[Robin Hamilton]

> In other old news, woman literally bites dog.
>
> http://www.startribune.com/local/17247504.html
>
> VS-)

Maybe she thought it was a hot dog -- you know, the old
confuse-symbol-with-reality business.  Seems to be endemic in certain places
not a thousand miles from this list.  <g>

Robin

> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> 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"
>>
>> 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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