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By 12/16/2020
Winter technically begins with the solstice, the shortest day of the year, on Monday, Dec. 21. It is the season of extreme tides, with 6-plus-foot tides rolling in over the New Year’s week with corresponding low tides late in the afternoons. The solstice also brings an amazing sky: the conjunction of two planets, Jupiter and Saturn, that will appear as a single brilliant star at around 7 p.m. in the western sky. The Ursid meteor shower will peak on the same evening; if you are up after midnight, look for the meteors near Ursa Minor, or the Little Dipper.