- Meteorological winter
There is a distinction between astronomical winter and meteorological winter. According to NOAA:
Meteorological winter is different, as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration noted in a Dec. 22, 2003 press release: "What many people don't know is that there is another kind of winter called meteorological winter" said Steve Kuhl, warning coordination meteorologist with the NOAA National Weather Service in Washington, D.C. Meteorological winter also marks the begining of the
meteorological year which starts on December 1st and lasts untile November 30th. [http://www.newsday.com/news/weather/wgntv-weatherwords-m,0,3517448.story?page=3]For weather watchers in the Northern Hemisphere, meteorological winter is the coldest three month period of the year: December, January, and February. [http://www.weatherdudes.com/facts_display.php?fact_id=30] In northern locations, meteorological winter begins long before the winter solstice, the NOAA press release says.
TOP 5 WINTER SEASON SNOWFALLS AT
BTV * 1.) 103.4" 2007-08
* 2.) 96.9" (1970-71)
* 3.) 81.7" (1965-66)
* 4.) 78.6" (1946-47)
* 5.) 75.7" (1969-70) [http://www.erh.noaa.gov/btv/events/26-27Feb2008/index.shtml]References
* [http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2003/s2143.htm NOAA Dec. 22, 2003 release]
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