I&#x27;m 38 but only noticed a few years ago that calendars say &quot;Winter begins&quot;. I feel like as a kid it was &quot;Winter solstice.&quot; I always assumed the solstice was the <i>midpoint</i> of winter, not the beginning. Doesn&#x27;t that make more sense? Anyway, my sense of the seasons is more like children&#x27;s books: autumn is when the leaves change, winter is when it snows, spring is when the flowers bud, summer is hot. Sounds like meteorological winter still doesn&#x27;t put the solstice at the middle of winter, but it would be closer.