Meteorological Winter

Foggy roadway descending down hill

The space around you is just grain of sand

Civil twilight transitions into daylight

Near the beginning of December, meteorological winter begins. Temperatures drop. Many plants go into dormancy. The days get shorter, making nights come even sooner, bringing even colder air with them—a short amount of daylight, low UV, followed by even sooner and chillier nights.

However, New Jersey's weather patterns seem to love playing games. As those cold nights give way to sunlight and rising temperatures, the air fills with fog. The roadway runs through the vast depths of Brendan T Byrne on a foggy morning in December. A continuous forest will eventually give rise to an extensive, expansive pond. That pond is barely anything compared to the rest of the forest.