We are now two days into it. Is it any different than three days ago, the last day of autumn? Not really. Even in harsher climates, the changes from one season to the next are gradual. Like the phases of the moon, the seasons are constantly phasing out of the previous, and into the next. The dates of the first and last days of each season, which are determined by the position of the Earth within its orbit around the sun, are technicalities.
Seasons in the Southern Hemisphere are of course opposite of what they are here. That seems odd to me. The calendar is the same there as here. It seems obvious to me that winter and all seasons should be determined by the same dates there that they are determined by here. If winter began last Friday here, it should have done the same there, on the the same date. Longer days and warmer weather are consequences of location, south of the Equator. It is hard to imagine that January and February are summer there.
It also seems odd to me that all maps are oriented with North directed towards the top. Shouldn’t South be at the top South of the Equator? Must Australia be the ‘land down under’ to those who live there? Things would be so much simpler if Columbus has just stayed home, and the World was still flat.
Anyway, we do not get much winter here. The weather gets a bit cooler, and we will eventually get more rain. When I went to Oklahoma six years ago, I thought that I would finally get to experience a real winter, but we left just before New Year’s Day, while the weather was still somewhat mild. This little bit of snow was about all we got.
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Tony Tomeo 
It’s the same here, but we probably have some colder days than you. It depends on what blows down from the north.
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Most climates get colder weather than we get; but there are a few that do not, such as the Los Angeles and San Diego regions.
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But he had his sweater, ready for whatever. 🙂
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That was Bill (Willow). He thought that sweater was rather slick. I could not argue.
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Right, he looked really good in it!
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He really was an excellent little terrier. He was always so tolerant, and just went with the flow while we were in Oklahoma.
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They’re family, our fur babies.
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? Bill considered me to be ‘staff’.
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Oh yes. It’s always important remember to have your human well trained. 😉
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Bill was quite aware of that. So is Rhody.
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Once again, I like the humour you so often inject into your posts. Have a great Xmas, Tony.
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Thank you.
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Reblogged this on Tony Tomeo and commented:
Since the date today does not coincide with the date on which this article posted three years ago, it is now five days into winter instead of two as prefaced in this article.
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Your re-blogging dateline is December 11 2021 at 2:14 pm. So I presume then, that if the 11th is 5 days into winter, winter for you would have started December 6.
Astronomical winter starts December 21, 2021 at 10:59 am ET here in Southwestern Ontario Canada. It will last 88 days, 23 hours, and 34 minutes.
Meteorological winter starts December 1 and runs to February 28 or 29 if there happens to be one.
There are apparently other definitions as to the start and end of winter.
So I’m curious what defines your start of winter. I do find all this sort of thing quite fascinating.
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Reblogged posts can not be scheduled for a later date. It is therefore necessary to reblog them directly, and then edit the date for their posting. This one is scheduled for December 26. You just happened to see it after it was reblogged, but before I edited the date of posting.
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