What is winter?

[Tom Zurinskas]

Looks like you've gone to the dogs, Victor.  Try to keep things relevant to the thread of these posts.

Meanwhile, according to the National Weather Service, it's March and Spring has begun!


Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
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> In other old news, woman literally bites dog.
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> http://www.startribune.com/local/17247504.html
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> VS-)
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> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Tom Zurinskas 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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