Dreaming of a white solstice

[astra_nomer]

I got into a big argument with DS1 this morning.

DS1 mentioned that tomorrow was the first day of winter, whereupon I said, No, actually it's today. He insisted that no, no, it's tomorrow! And okay, the solstice actually happens at 7:22pm EST tonight, so fine, I'm willing to concede the point. Then he told me that he was excited about snow coming tomorrow! Actually, I told him, it's going to rain tomorrow, not snow. At which point he got completely upset at me. How could it rain tomorrow? It's going to be winter! It snows in winter! You're talking nonsense.

Maybe I should have just kept quiet and let him be disappointed tomorrow? At least then he wouldn't be mad at me on account of the weather forecast.

Comments

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

It bugs me that "the first day of winter" and "midwinter" are the same thing, but that's a different complaint. :)

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

In my head midwinter is February so it's all ok.

[astra-nomer.livejournal.com]

I need to get past the winter=snow fallacy with him first. I didn't feel like discussing climate zones and latitudes first thing this morning, after all.

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

Well, it's snowing in Colorado, anyway.