Winter Solstice

Knowing that over a foot of snow fell in St. Cloud this week it is hard to believe that this is still technically Autumn.

I'm so sick of the sun setting in the middle of the afternoon. I have no idea how people in Alaska survive.

Winter Solstice (the day with the shortest amount of daylight hours) is happening next Monday, and we only have two more minutes of daylight left to lose.

Today marks the Winter Solstice, also known as the shortest day of the year; with 8 hours, 46 minutes, and 25 seconds of daylight (that's the bad news).

It's been feeling a lot like we're going to get a brown Christmas this year. With temperatures in the 40's this week, I think someone forgot to tell Mother Nature that Christmas is less than a week away.

Today is officially the first day of astronomical winter in the northern hemisphere (woo hoo), or as we call it here in Minnesota, a slushy December 21st. It has little to do with what we call 'winter' in Minnesota, and more about planets and the sun; but here's are ten things I do know: