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What do you consider a winter?

• ThalesX 4y ago
  I consider winter to be a magical time of the year when as a child I used to play in the snow, hear stories about horrible winters from my grand parents, and that as an adult I feel brings some difficulties to my life. When I read something like 'this Winter is warm with minimal gas burned so far', I refer back to the common interpretation of winter which is December -> March in the Northern Hemisphere, because otherwise I would have to start interpreting what the other three seasons mean also.
  • dogcatter 4y ago
    > the common interpretation of winter which is December -> March in the Northern Hemisphere As I hope you are learning, in very many places in the northern hemisphere, perhaps including most of Europe, that is not what people mean by 'winter'.
  • Tade0 4y ago
    Well, most of Europe stopped having consistent snow, so we can't refer to it like that any more. I remember when I was a kid come November there was frost on the ground and the soil would gradually freeze and harden, creating the type of environment needed for snow to persist. Twenty years have passed and it's all gone now. We have droughts in the summer though, for which we're largely unprepared because water retention was never a concern before. That's climate change for you I guess.