Now, the winter solstice, Saturday, Dec. 21st ... Many cultures throughout human history have observed the shift in season as ...

Saturday may be the shortest day of the year in Florida, but the winter solstice coincides with the peak of the Ursid meteor ...

People are gathering at Stonehenge and elsewhere across the northern hemisphere to mark the start of astronomical winter.

Those flakes may have been nothing more, however, than atmospheric curiosities or even harmless symbols of ... the day of the solstice, generally regarded as the start of winter.