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While there is no well-agreed-upon date used to indicate the start of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, there are two definitions of winter which may be used. Based on the astronomical definition, winter begins at the winter solstice, which in 2009 occurred on December 21, and ends at the March equinox, which in 2010 occurred on March 20. [1]
The December 2009 North American blizzard was a powerful nor'easter that formed over the Gulf of Mexico in December 2009, and became a major snowstorm that affected the East Coast of the United States and Canadian Atlantic provinces. The snowstorm brought record-breaking December snowfall totals to Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and Philadelphia.
It was the blizzard of December 18-19, 2009. Known locally as Snowpocalypse, it would go down as the largest December snowstorm in the recorded weather history of the nation’s capital!
The winter solstice occurs during the hemisphere's winter. In the Northern Hemisphere, this is the December solstice (December 21 or 22) and in the Southern Hemisphere, this is the June solstice (June 20 or 21). Although the winter solstice itself lasts only a moment, the term also refers to the day on which it occurs.
The winter solstice marks the shortest day and longest night of the year, according to the National Weather Service. This occurs due to the Earth's tilt from the sun.
In 2024, the winter solstice falls on Dec. 21, 2024, at 4:20 a.m. EST. Astronomical winter. ... but meteorologists commonly consider a different date to mark the beginning of the new season. On ...
The December-solstice solar year is the solar year based on the December solstice. It is thus the length of time between adjacent December solstices. The length of the December-solstice year has been relatively stable between 6000 BC and AD 2000, in the range of 49 minutes 30 seconds to 50 minutes in excess of 365 days 5 hours.
New Hampshire’s Mount Washington experienced “full winter conditions at the summit ... This year, the winter solstice is at 4:21 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 21. Just Curious for more? We've got you ...