Winter is Here

A snowy day in Verona. 1/9/2024 dwm

  Winter arrived while most of us were sleeping, it was twenty minutes past three when it arrived.

 

  It will be interesting to see what winter has for us. We had January temperatures in mid-November but no snow in any part of it. 

 

 Last year we had a number of 4 to 6-inch snowfalls but almost every time it warmed up enough to melt it before the next snow.

 

 While the winter solstice marks the year's longest night, it means more daylight is coming, a few seconds at a time.

We moved back to Wisconsin because we missed winter. While we didn't live in the south, Indianapolis winters didn't get a lot of measurable snow. We see more now but it's nothing like what I remember growing up, of course, that's fifty years ago.

Madison Solstice

 

The sun is low

Ceding time in the sky.

 

Eight hours

Fifty-nine minutes

Forty-four seconds.

 

The shortest day

 

It gains 3 seconds

Then 8 more after

 

It's all on the way

To a much longer day

 

It won't come too soon,

We'll wait until June.  

    

  12/16/2024 david mossner