Sun!

Snow covered roofs, pinkish blue sky.  It is the day after Winter Solstice.  Asheville, NC gets one hour and 23 minutes more daylight than does Concord,  NH this time of year. It isn't just the cold weather that sends New Englanders south.  It is the sunlight!

But the days are growing longer now.



"At 12:11 p.m. EST on December 21, the sun appears directly overhead along the Tropic of Capricorn, at 23.5 degrees south latitude. With the Earth’s north pole at its maximum tilt from the sun, locations north of the equator see the sun follow its lowest and shortest arc across the southern sky. For the next six months, the days again grow longer as the sun spends more time above the horizon."http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/12/20/winter-solstice-2013-shortest-day-of-the-year-but-sunset-already-creeping-later/

My experience spending a winter in seacoast New Hampshire demonstrates the malaise that runs over most people.  Unless of course you ski. Then you are more than happy to be on the slopes. Skiing is a $6.5 million dollar industry in New Hampshire.




 

As we say in New Hampshire, LIVE FREE OR DIE.  Just don't do the latter on our slopes:)