It’s December, and we’re in our darkest month. It is also now meteorological winter — the name given to the coldest three months of the year (December, January and February). December comes with one of the year’s busiest meteor showers, and this time around, the final supermoon of 2025.

This is the month of the winter solstice, which marks the start of astronomical winter in the Northern Hemisphere. We’ve still got a few weeks to go before then, but already we’re almost scraping bottom in terms of sunlight. Tomorrow has only 10 minutes more daylight than the day of the solstice, which occurs at 10:03 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 21.

Those of us who tend to notice sunsets more than sunrises will get a preview of sorts, as the sun goes down earlier on Sunday and Monday (Dec. 7 and 8) for our regio

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