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Thursday, September 25, 2014

Boreal Spring, Boreal summer, Boreal winter

In science the term "boreal winter" (or "boreal spring" or summer or fall), is shorthand for "Northern Hemisphere winter". (NH winter)

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The term used for the Southern Hemisphere (SH) is "Austral", as in "Austral winter".  citation

None of this will be found on Wikipedia.

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