Winter is a strange concept. Up in central Illinois and out on Long Island, it’s obvious: clouds roll in, cold winds blow, snow piles up and gets bulldozed into disgusting grey mountains that persist well into the spring. But down here in Texas, and depending on the year, there might not be much difference in weather from November all the way through to April: the sun keeps shining, maybe temperatures drift into the 60s or 70s, maybe we see a bit of ice in February or some snow in April that melts off by 10am, but otherwise, it’s closely identical with the summer, just not quite so hot.
From Noah Waldeck’s Instant Winter: Michigan and Instant Winter: Florida, it looks like winter, as a concept, pretty much the same there.
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