It's officially 'Let's Jaw About Cold Weather Winter' | Sam Venable The Knoxville News-Sentinel 2 hrs ago Sam Venable On March 19, when overnight temperatures throughout East Tennessee abruptly flirted with freezing, I received an inquiry from Celia Simon of Kingston. “So which winter is this?” she wanted to know. In my typical (smart aleck) fashion, I responded: “Cold Weather Winter is as good a guess as any.” Celia’s question did light a fire in my pea brain, however. It sparked again during the frigid runup to Easter last weekend, igniting the fuse on my seasonal gripe: Why in the name of Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit do we label sudden weather changes in the spring, but not other times of the year?