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winter images.
Depending on place and
culture, start and end of winter can be defined as above
or in other ways. Contemporary meteorology takes winter
to be the months of June, July, and August in the Southern
Hemisphere, and December, January, and February in the
Northern Hemisphere.
Winter is one of the four seasons of temperate zones.
Almost all English-language calendars, going by astronomy,
state that winter begins on the winter solstice, and ends
on the spring equinox. Calculated more by the weather,
it begins and ends earlier and is the season with the
shortest days and the lowest temperatures. Either way,
it generally has cold weather and, especially in the higher
latitudes, snow and ice... |
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