Dec 21

[james_davis_nicoll]

SPRING IS COMING.

Comments

[pperiwinkle.livejournal.com]

Promise?


*fondles seed catalogs*

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Unless the situation in Russian spirals into nuclear war.

[graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)]

Or Bárðarbunga manages to get a lot of ash into the atmosphere.

(Which, given the kind of volcano Bárðarbunga is, isn't at all likely.)

[drplokta]

You're a bit early; the solstice isn't until 23:03 UTC.

[w. dow rieder (from livejournal.com)]

Is it true? Are the rituals complete? Does the new sun ride the paths of her mother?

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

Damnit.

I liked the longening nights.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I CRAVE UV AS OTHERS CRAVE THE SOULS OF THE INNOCENT.

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

Here you go. Now can we get back to the night longening?

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

And yet not enough to move to someplace where you would get more of it in the course of the year.

[melita66.livejournal.com]

Faced with two toddlers that I can't take to the park between day care pick-up and home, I can't wait until the days lengthen!

Oh yeah, and worsening eyesight makes more daylight a good thing.

[sean o'hara (from livejournal.com)]

Unfortunately Americans have decided, in contravention of all that is rational, that solstices and equinoxes mark the beginning and not the middle of seasons.

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

Thermal inertia of the climate system, thankyouverymuch.

[sean o'hara (from livejournal.com)]

Winter weather starts in late November everywhere I've ever lived that has a winter.

[(Anonymous)]

Astronomical seasons are marked by the solstices and equinoxes. Meteorlogical/climatological seasons start about 3 weeks earlier, lining up with the month boundaries. This matches the average onset of the seasons fairly well in Britain.

[sean o'hara (from livejournal.com)]

Astronomical seasons don't don't make much sense either. Winter should be the quarter of the year with the shortest days, so +/- 46 days from the solstice. Meteorlogical seasons should start a week or two later due to the lag in weather.

In any event, Americans use the astronomical definition as the only definition for seasons. The news today is full of stories claiming this is officially the first day of winter.

[errolwi.livejournal.com]

Meteorlogical seasons should start a week or two later due to the lag in weather.

Or be ignored where irrelevant (e.g. the tropics).

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

At this time of year I always think it's unfortunate that all the songs about how nice cold and snow can be are tagged as Christmas songs. December 26, we're all supposed to shut up and get to the vernal equinox in silence, any way we can.

[dbdatvic.livejournal.com]

Winter Wonderland (without the glurgy Christian verses added recently).

--Dave, ditto Frosty the Snowman, and ditto

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Only three more months!

Happy Yule, the celebration of the fact that it will not be dark forever.

[realinterrobang.livejournal.com]

And not a moment too soon.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Yes.

It is.

[chomiji]

Hmmm ... have you read John Crowley's _Little, Big_?