Hey Ray! Winter Is Coming

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – ​Winter officially begins on Monday, December 21st at 5:02 a.m.
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That is a very specific time because it is the exact time that the sun reaches its greatest angular distance south of the Equator, marking the Winter Solstice.
That is what a solstice is: the time when the sun reaches its greatest distance from the Equator.
It happens twice a year, once in the winter and once in the summer.
The solstice marks the beginning of those se