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In the Northern Hemisphere, the solstice that occurs in December marks the official, astronomical start of winter. [...] Indeed, if you have been watching the sun during sunrise and sunset over the past few months, you will have noticed it rising and setting farther and farther south each day. [1]

This corresponds to the months of December, January and February in the Northern Hemisphere, and June, July and August in the Southern Hemisphere. [2]

The winter solstice that occurs in December for the Northern Hemisphere is the summer solstice for the Southern Hemisphere. [...] In the winter time, those in the Northern Hemisphere receive fewer hours of sunshine and less direct rays of sunshine, which combine to make it the coldest season. [1]

Meteorologically, the winter solstice, being the day of the year which has fewest hours of daylight, ought to be the middle of the season, but temperature lag means that the coldest period normally follows the solstice, so the season is regarded (in the USA and England) as beginning at the solstice and ending on the following equinox. [...] The Earth is tilted at an angle of 23.44? to the plane of its orbit, and this causes different latitudes on the Earth to directly face the Sun as the Earth moves through its orbit. [...] Meteorological winter is the season having the shortest days and the lowest average temperatures, which have the coldest weather. [2]

It is understandable to wonder why, if the December solstice marks the shortest day and the farthest south the sun will get, that it hasn’t been colder leading up to the solstice and that it doesn’t get warmer more quickly as the sun moves north again. [1]

The coldest average temperatures of the season are typically experienced in January in the Northern hemisphere and in June or July in the Southern hemisphere. [2]

In the summer, it takes the atmosphere a while to warm up from receiving the additional radiation, and therefore it is not hottest at the summer solstice. [1]

Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. [2]

The copyright of the article First Day of Winter in Solar System Astronomy is owned by Kelly Whitt. [1]

Other annual plants require winter cold to complete their life cycle, this is known as vernalization. [2]

In actuality, the sun has not been moving farther south but the Earth has been orbiting the Sun. [1]

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[1] First Day of Winter: When the December Solstice Occurs …
[2] Winter - Wikipedia

“I remember what kind of confidence we had taking the field as an undefeated team and knowing that if we played a good game it was going to be almost impossible for teams to beat us,” Patriots quarterback Tom Brady said. [1]

TELEVISION: This week’s game will be nationally televised by ESPN and can be seen in Boston on WCVB-TV Channel 5. [2]

* This will be Head Coach Sean Payton’s first game as a head coach against the Patriots, while New England head Coach Bill Belichick owns a 3-0 all-time record against the Saints. [3]

It will be the second time in three weeks that the Patriots will face an undefeated opponent on national television after facing the 8-0 Colts on Nov. 15th in Indianapolis. [2]

The New Orleans Saints will have to defend against Tom Brady and Co. without the team’s starting cornerbacks - Jabari Greer and Tracy Porter - who are both inactive for Monday night’s game against the New England Patriots. [4]

Coaches: Saints’ Sean Payton (35-23 in four seasons, all with the Saints); Patriots’ Bill Belichick (116-45 in 10 seasons with the Patriots, 153-90 overall). [5]

Now the Saints are 10-0 and threatening, along with Indianapolis, to become the only team to go 16-0 in a regular season since the 2007 Patriots. [1]

The New Orleans Saints and the New England Patriots will square off at the Superdome tonight in a showdown of two of the NFL’s best teams. [4]

The New England Patriots will face the 10-0 New Orleans Saints on Monday Night Football from the Louisiana Superdome this week. [2]

“You have to pay attention to the Microsofts of the world if you’re some day wanting to compete in that industry,” Payton said this week as New Orleans prepared to host Belichick’s New England Patriots. [1]

The New England Patriots and the New Orleans Saints announce the following inactive players for tonight’s game. [6]

The diminutive Patriots receiver is coming off his best game as a professional, hauling in 15 passes for 192 yards in the Patriots’ 31-14 victory over the New York Jets last week. [5]

Patriots Football Weekly’s Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Fred Kirsch offers his “Kirsch Words” blog which features in-game commentary during the Patriots Monday night football game against the New Orleans Saints beginning at 7:30pm ET. [6]

The inclusion of a five-foot tall photo of Glover joins a gallery of other past Saints players, former executive Jim Finks and former coach Jim Mora on the walls of the hallway that current players use on the way to the locker room. [3]

NEW ORLEANS — Bill Belichick and Bill Gates have more in common than their first name, the way Saints coach Sean Payton sees it. [1]

Sources:
[1] Unbeaten Saints seek signature win vs. Patriots - NFL - ESPN
[2] Patriots to Face undefeated Saints on Monday Night
[3] New Orleans Saints
[4] Saints Football News, Schedule, Videos, Photos, Forums - NOLA.com
[5] New Orleans Saints vs. New England Patriots: Inside the game …
[6] New England Patriots @ New Orleans Saints - 11/30/2009

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Lakewood, Washington (CNN) — Whoever fatally shot four police officers Sunday in a coffee shop outside Tacoma, Washington, may have been wounded by one of the victims, police said. [1]

A murder warrant has been issued for Clemmons, the man suspected of killing four Lakewood, Wash., police officers Sunday in a coffee shop, Pierce County sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said. [2]

Police surrounded the house late Sunday, and a negotiator used a loudspeaker early Monday to call him out by name, saying: “Mr. Clemmons, I’d like to get you out of there safely. [3]

The discovery added new urgency to the manhunt for Maurice Clemmons as police canvassed the neighborhood with search dogs and hundreds of officers were deployed around Seattle for any sign of the suspect. [4]

Seattle Police Department SWAT team officers leave the scene of an all night stakeout in Seattle, Washington November 30, 2009 after searching for Maurice Clemmons, a suspect in the killing of four Lakewood police officers. [5]

Pierce County sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said the location of Maurice Clemmons was not known, and it’s possible he still could be in the neighborhood. [6]

Following a standoff that stretched to nearly 12 hours, Maurice Clemmons was not found in the home in the Leschi neighborhood, Seattle police spokesman Jeff Kappel told reporters. [7]

SEATTLE - A suspect in the slaying of four police officers gunned down in a suburban coffee shop was holed up at a Seattle house early Monday, wounded and possibly dead, police said. [3]

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Troyer said warrants for first-degree murder have been issued against Clemmons, 37, who is accused of shooting four officers from the Tacoma suburb of Lakewood on Sunday morning as they were working in the coffee house. [6]

Seattle, Washington (CNN) — A manhunt was under way Monday for a suspect in the shooting deaths of four police officers after he apparently eluded authorities in an east Seattle neighborhood. [7]

Investigators are checking with area hospitals to determine whether the gunman sought treatment after the shooting, Pierce County sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said. [1]

“We have determined that in fact he has been shot,” said Ed Troyer, a spokesman for the Pierce County Sheriff. [3]

A suspect in the slaying of four police officers who were gunned down in a suburban coffee shop was holed up at a Seattle house early Monday, wounded and possibly dead, police said. [8]

SEATTLE ‘ A police SWAT team Monday morning swarmed a Seattle home surrounded overnight but did not find suspected cop killer Maurice Clemmons inside. [2]

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[1] Killer of 4 Washington cops may be wounded, police say - CNN.com
[2] Four police officers shot dead in Washington state: police
[3] Police looking for ex-con in shooting deaths of 4 police …
[4] Suspect in Washington police shooting hurt, maybe dead …
[5] ‘Surrounded’ suspect in police shootings disappears - thestar.com
[6] Police seek ex-con in Wash. police shootings | News Updates …
[7] After 4 officers killed, police tell area residents to stay …
[8] CTV News | ‘Person of interest’ sought in police shooting deaths

As Charlie Weis coached what was believed to be his final regular-season game in an entertaining 45-38 loss Saturday night on the Farm, Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops dodged rumors back in America’s heartland. [1]

NORMAN ‘ Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops quickly shot down rumors that he has an interview set up with Notre Dame. [2]

OU coach Bob Stoops - along with TCU coach Gary Patterson and Texas defensive coordinator Will Muschamp - would fit the description of what Notre Dame officials are looking for in a head coach, a source told the Tribune. [3]

No coach in Notre Dame football history faced the music with any more grace than Tyrone Willingham, even amid the chorus of boos. [4]

The Sun-Times, on Nov. 15, first reported Stoops’ interest in the job, which will be vacated when Charlie Weis is fired following the Irish’s regular-season finale at Stanford on Saturday. [5]

Bob Stoops, right, will have a strong team coming back next season, both on offense with Landry Jones (shown against Idaho State) and defense. [6]

Even if Stoops represents the best, most ambitious place for the Notre Dame coaching search to start, Weis’ body of work is still warm. [7]

And he’s Irish, Catholic and a Midwest native, all things paramount to any Notre Dame coaching candidacy, though sometimes I wonder why heritage, religion and geographical background really matter at the most national of football programs. [8]

Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick also denied the Stoops speculation when contacted by the Chicago Tribune while he was attending the Irish’s game Saturday at Stanford. [2]

And let me say here amid the evergreens of Stanford Stadium, where the football program has succeeded at a finer institution of higher learning while the Fighting Irish have not, that Stoops would be thebest candidate to replace Charlie Weis. [8]

After the final game of his Notre Dame tenure, a gut-wrenching 45-38 loss to Stanford that finished the Irish season at 6-6, Weis hid behind the words of his players. [...] It will take a guy like Bob Stoops to restore it. [4]

“Any version of anything you hear about a contact with a coach is absolutely wrong,” Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick said in the Stanford press box. [7]

Weis first quit on his players last Sunday when he publicly acknowledged athletic director Jack Swarbrick had reason to fire him and again Saturday night with the game on the line. [4]

Several reports surfaced after the Sooners’ 27-0 Bedlam victory over Oklahoma State that Irish officials would either fly to Norman sometime Sunday to interview Stoops or fly the OU coach to South Bend, Ind. [2]

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[1] CFB: Notre Dame should pursue Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops …
[2] Tulsa World: From the blogs: Stoops denies Notre Dame rumors
[3] Tulsa World: Stoops is high on Notre Dame’s wish list …
[4] Charlie Weis: Notre Dame should go after Oklahoma coach Bob …
[5] Stoops may be next in line at Notre Dame :: The SouthtownStar …
[6] Notre Dame is no place for Bob Stoops | NewsOK.com
[7] Notre Dame should pursue Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops - National …
[8] Stoops, Notre Dame Need Each Other — FanHouse