Stupid wobbling ball of a planet! Who came up with this stupid idea of seasons, anyway?

Really. The axis of the Earth's rotation should be perpendicular to the ecliptic plane. What's so hard about that?

Oh well. At least we're not like Uranus. It pretty much is titled sideways....

People can feel free to throw some snow my way. I just got messages from my DH and my best friend to tell me it's snowing where they are. So why is it not snowing where I am? I miss snow. I haven't seen snow in... two years or so, I think.

Because the solstice is the beginning of winter, not the end?

Right, but why? It's the point at which we begin getting more sun, after all, as we tilt towards it again. I mean, for that matter, why does summer only start at the summer solstice? Maybe it takes a while for everything to cool down to the point winter weather starts?

Possible Post cereal...

I feel like an idiot. I've spent the last week trying to figure out why Beadle Bamford in Sweeney Todd looked so familiar... well, it's freaking Wormtail, innit?

Right, but why? It's the point at which we begin getting more sun, after all, as we tilt towards it again.

'Cuz even after the Solstice (for the following month-ish) the Arctic Circle is still hardly getting any sun at all, so it just gets colder and colder up there. And then those bastard Canadians send their cold Arctic air down to us.

So there's always a lag as the temperature of the earth, oceans and air "catches up" to where the sun is shining the most.

eta:

Maybe it takes a while for everything to cool down to the point winter weather starts?

Yeah, this.

why Beadle Bamford in Sweeney Todd looked so familiar... well, it's freaking Wormtail, innit?

It is.

I feel like an idiot. I've spent the last week trying to figure out why Beadle Bamford in Sweeney Todd looked so familiar... well, it's freaking Wormtail, innit?

Yep. Once again playing Alan Rickman's skeezy sidekick, too.

Oh, and "meteorological winter" is from Dec. 1 to Feb 28. Which is closer to how the weather behaves....

Please talk, people. I need your help to stay awake until my next class!

What should we talk about?

Oh, I know. High-beam headlights! How come nobody in big cities knows how to use them?

If you live in the country and someone is coming towards you with their high-beams on, you flash yours at them and then they dim their headlights. But in Chicago no one seems to know that. Maybe because in big cities there's really no reason to use high beams, so people never learn about them at all and then some people just leave theirs on all the time?