In the Northern Hemisphere, meteorological Winter starts on 21 December.

The Common Kestrel starts breeding in spring ( or the start of the dry season in the tropics ), i. e. April / May in temperate Eurasia and some time between August and December in the tropics and southern Africa.

In leap years, March starts on the same day as September and December of the previous year.

The first rainy season begins around March and last to the end of July with a peak in June, this rainy season is followed by a short dry break in August known as the August break which is a short dry season lasting for two to three weeks in August. This break is broken by the Short rainy season starting around early September and lasting to Mid October with a peak period at the end of September. The ending of the short rainy season in October is followed by Long Dry Season. This period starts from late October and lasts till early March with peak dry conditions between early December and late February.

In early November with the start of the short rains the migration starts moving south again, to the short grass plains of the south east, usually arriving in December in plenty of time for calving in February.

* December 7 – Chiara Lubich starts the Focolare Movement in Trent, northern Italy, during WWII.

Winter usually starts in early December, and spring in late March.

The wet season starts in December and ends in May ; the dry season covers the remaining six months.

In average years frost starts on about 14 October and ends on about 18 April, with sustained extreme cold from about 19 December to about 23 February, a period of about 67 days.

* December 31 – RTÉ starts television broadcasts, bringing television to the Republic of Ireland for the first time.

* December – René Bathélemy starts operating an experimental weekly programme of one hour with a 60-line black-and-white system " Paris Télévision ".

The Thai lunar calendar does not mark the beginning of a new year when it starts a new 1-to-12 count, which occurs most frequently in December.

The spawning migration starts north of Iceland in December or January.

In modern practice, starts immediately upon the emperor's ascension to the throne and ends on December 31.

A new KOF story arc called the " Tales of Ash " starts in The King of Fighters 2003, released on December 12, 2003.

Winter starts sunny in December and becomes cloudier towards February.

Winter gets serious in early December, peaks in January and February ( 20's to 30's ), and starts fading near the end of March.

On December 6, 2010, Brady set an NFL record by winning 26 consecutive regular-season home starts, in a 45 – 3 victory over the New York Jets.

Aurelian is believed to have established the Dies Natalis Solis Invicti ( Day of the Birth of Sol Invictus ) as an annual festival held on the day when the sun's daily declination visibly starts rising again after the winter solstice, namely on December 25 ; the birth of the central figure was thus celebrated on the day which Christians later used to celebrate Jesus ' birth ( having always celebrated this at Epiphany ).

* 27 December 1918 – evening: uprising starts with shooting in front of Poznań's Police Headquarters.

The game starts when U. S. Marine Corporal Joseph D. " Joe " Griffin wakes up on the USS California to the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941.

* December 5, 1876 – A stage lamp ignites scenery and starts the Brooklyn Theater Fire during a performance of " The Two Orphans ", killing at least 276 people, primarily patrons in the upper gallery.

In December 2009 Variety reported that Anderson was working on a new script tentatively titled The Master, about a " charismatic intellectual " who starts a new religion in the 1950s.

Mating season starts in December and ends in September.

And she wrote the libretto for an oratorio on the subject of Judas Maccabeus performed at the Hanukkah festival which came in December.

The group, upon the issuance of its first press release on December 21, 1957, designated itself a `` Committee of Investigation ''.

Ernest A. Gross leaned back in his chair and told Peter Marshall how Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold had, on December 4, 1957, called him in as a private lawyer to review Bang-Jensen's conduct `` relating to his association with the Special Committee on the problem of Hungary ''.

On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.

As it began raining at around eight o'clock on December 26th, I retired into my tent early, somewhat tired and discouraged, my body reacting sluggishly because of the continued exposure.

The queen agreed on December 17, a warrant was signed on January 27, and the Exchequer paid Quiney his expenses on February 27, 1598/9.

In December I wrote her with authority that we would meet on the steps of the Hotel Astor, a rendezvous spot that I had learned was the most sophisticated.

This would seem to fix the tax situs of all movable personal property at its location on December 31.

Obviously, it would be impossible to determine where every vehicle might be on the 31st day of December.

A recent example of this problem is the flying of six airplanes, on December 31, 1960, from the Newport Airpark in Middletown, to the North Central Airport in Smithfield.

In eleven states, the fiscal year of the cities ends on December 31, while the state fiscal year ends on June 30 ( Arkansas, Colorado, Indiana, Kansas, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin ).

In eight states whose fiscal years close on June 30, a majority of their cities close their fiscal year on December 31::

All of its cities close their fiscal years on December 31.

April 15 is usually the final date for filing income tax returns for most people because they use the calendar year ending on December 31.

If you use a fiscal year, a year ending on the last day of any month other than December, your return is due on or before the 15th day of the 4th month after the close of your tax year.

On December 5 he paced a mile in 55 on the twice-around, out in third position all the way.

She was then trained on the trot until December 29, hitched to a breaking cart once around the half-mile track and hoppled again.

An advertisement in the `` Newburyport Herald '', December 21, 1810, shows Palmer in a new light as an expert on chain bridges.

For these crimes he was sentenced to be hanged in public on Friday, December 2, 1859.