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The January 5–6, 2025 United States blizzard was a significant and expansive winter weather event that produced blizzard conditions across the High Plains, [3] as well as a long swath of accumulating snow and and ice storm to the eastern half of the United States in early January 2025.
The 2024–25 North American winter is the current winter season that is ongoing across the continent of North America. So far, the season has started as one of the coldest in several years, with temperatures below average across the eastern half of the continent during the month of December.
The days are short and the nights are long. That can only mean one thing: The winter solstice is coming. The first day of winter for the northern hemisphere of Earth will begin on Dec. 21 at ...
The two solstices are considered to be the start of the astronomical winter and summer seasons. ... After the solstice, every day will have a little more sunlight than the one before. By the time ...
Astronomical winter begins on the winter solstice, which is the shortest day of the year when the North Pole is tilted away from the sun. This year that's Saturday, Dec. 21, which will be 5:21 a.m ...
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.
When does winter start? In 2024, the first day of winter is Saturday, Dec. 21. This is when the winter solstice, or the shortest day of the year, occurs. ... Slowly but surely, from Dec. 22 until ...
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 2010 occurred late on December 21 (early on December 22 in EST ), and ends at the March equinox ...