At the winter solstice, the days are shortest and the nights are longest, with days lengthening as the season progresses after the solstice. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinterNothing">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinterNothing</a> about temperature ;)I have lived i Scotland, England and Vancouver in Canada, every year winter came, if we were lucky we got a week of snow, an inch or to, enough to make snow men but the were always covered with st