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.
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?
Oh, and I know a guy who learned to drive in LA. When he was driving in the Wisconsin countryside, he refused to use high-beams at all, even when there were no other cars around (and there
were
deer around).
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.
I know that! I also know to flash the lights at a truck that's passing you to let the driver know it's safe to come over.
I am always worried I'll forget about them and leave them on, but so far so good. And I HAVE to use them out here -- I think my headlights may be tilted funny, because I just can't see anything without the high beams (that is to say, when there are no lights around. In town, I'm fine).
Here's something that bugged me on my long drive -- what's with the extremely bright headlights? You know how most headlights are yellowish? Some of them are more blue, and look like maybe halogen, and are sort of painfully bright.
