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All matters on the court calendar for Wednesday were rescheduled or transferred to other courthouses, and L.A.

Thune, an amiable 63-year-old more comfortable talking about the Senate calendar than he is castigating his opposition as demonically possessed, gave his best shot at an opening partisan broadside in a press conference after the Senate GOP conclave.

BBC Weather uses the meteorological calendar, where winter always begins on 1 December and ends on the last day of February.

By comparison, in the astronomical calendar, winter always starts at the winter solstice - or shortest day.

The winter solstice is a key point in the astronomical calendar and marks the change from autumn to winter.