Winter CD.

From: mr_swayzee22 Nov 2006 00:18
To: Manthorp 55 of 126

;-)

I'm actually doing pretty well just now Mr ManTHROB.

just can't listen to any of it for the moment sadly as 'er indoors is in the other room listening to audiobooks off the puter.

I will do a mp3 player review session on the way to work tomorrow,

also. I just realised that this means I get to put whatever tunes on of my own that I like!!!!

mwwwwaaaha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha 

From: Manthorp22 Nov 2006 00:25
To: mr_swayzee 56 of 126
Unchained Melody, Dirty Dancing and other seasonal favourites here we come...
From: spinning_plates30 Nov 2006 21:54
To: ALL57 of 126
Just for the record


Winter 2006-2007 starts: Dec. 21, 7:22 PM and ends: Mar. 20, 7:07 PM apparently. So we're still ~3 weeks away from the start.
From: Dave!!30 Nov 2006 22:19
To: spinning_plates 58 of 126
I find it daft that Winter actually (supposedly) begins on the shortest day of the year. No sooner has Winter started then the nights begin to pull out again :S
From: JonCooper 1 Dec 2006 08:16
To: spinning_plates 59 of 126
that's about what I thought, yay me !
From: spinning_plates 1 Dec 2006 15:51
To: Dave!! 60 of 126
Oh I completely agree, it seems ridiculous. I always though as a kid that winter started in November some time. However, I was, evidently, wrong.
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 1 Dec 2006 16:09
To: spinning_plates 61 of 126
It is ridiculous, and that's why it's a definition that should be ignored, and one of the more accurate definitions uses instead.

quote:
Astronomically, it starts with the winter solstice, and ends with the spring equinox

...

In meteorology, it is by convention counted instead as the whole months of December, January and February in the Northern Hemisphere.

...

the winter solstice is traditionally considered as midwinter[citation needed], the winter season beginning 1 November on All Hallows or Samhain. Winter ends and spring begins on Imbolc or Candlemas, which is February 1 or 2.

...

the three-month period associated with the coldest average temperatures typically begins somewhere in late November
From: JonCooper 1 Dec 2006 16:14
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 62 of 126
quote:
Astronomically, it starts with the winter solstice, and ends with the spring equinox


isn't that the same as what he said? ^^
From: Dave!! 1 Dec 2006 16:27
To: JonCooper 63 of 126
Yes, but BP's point I believe is that there's loads of different definitions about when it does and doesn't start. As has been mentioned, I think it's daft that it supposedly begins on the shortest day.
From: MrTrent 1 Dec 2006 16:52
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 64 of 126
quote:
In meteorology, it is by convention counted instead as the whole months of December, January and February in the Northern Hemisphere.
That's the definition of winter i've always gone by.
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 1 Dec 2006 17:11
To: JonCooper 65 of 126
Indeed it was, but to expand on what Dave!! pointed out, sp hadn't mentioned that it was the Astronomical definition.
Personally I find the climatic definition to be the most sensible - since winter is generally 'the cold part of the year', so why not make it align with the actual coldest part of the year.
(and the time of the year when the autumn leaves have mostly finished falling and the time where mid-winter is actually in the middle.)
From: spinning_plates 1 Dec 2006 17:52
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 66 of 126
Well, here at least, the coldest part of the year probably is between about Dec 21st and March 21st. It's not gotten really frigid yet and it doesn't tend to start thawing out until the end of March.
From: JonCooper 1 Dec 2006 18:01
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 67 of 126
it does align with the cold part of the year, end of Dec to end of March
From: Dave!! 1 Dec 2006 18:04
To: JonCooper 68 of 126
I disagree. I consider December in general to be colder than March. We've already been having frosts and whatnot here. I tend to find those begin dying out towards the end of Feb / beginning of March.
From: JonCooper 1 Dec 2006 19:39
To: Dave!! 69 of 126
eh? frosts? nah, it hasn't dipped below 10O yet (here)
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 1 Dec 2006 20:41
To: JonCooper 70 of 126
start of december, to mid-march.
From: ANT_THOMAS 3 Dec 2006 11:52
To: JonCooper 71 of 126

It certainly has here in Sheffield and the trees no longer have any leaves that can be shed. It's winter here.

 

And the wind that is managing to shake my house worries me.

From: Manthorp 3 Dec 2006 16:29
To: mr_swayzee 72 of 126
Oi! Dirty ghost Patrick! Irrespective of the meteorological nicities with which the rest of the possie define the bleak midwinter, I say it is nigh and I want an album of warming winter grooves to snuggle up to the missus with.
From: mr_swayzee 4 Dec 2006 09:38
To: Manthorp 73 of 126

well, you could have one now but it would be shortish, I would like some more reccomendations please

pull your weight forum! 

From: Manthorp 4 Dec 2006 12:09
To: ALL74 of 126
Aye, get a bloody move on. Last one to post her or his two wintery songs is a pocket-fluffy werthers.