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Elena pulled out her phone. She texted her sister in Phoenix, where winter was a theory, not a fact.

"First real snow," the cashier had said when Elena bought an extra bag of salt. "Looks like winter's decided to show up early." when winter starts in usa

She was driving back from the grocery store in Missoula, Montana, when the sky turned the color of an old bruise. The wind had been quiet all morning—unusually so, which should have been her first warning. By 2 p.m., the first flakes appeared, not falling so much as materializing sideways. By 3 p.m., the plows were out, groaning their low hymns along the highway. Elena pulled out her phone

Winter, she thought, was also the season of small rituals: switching the storm windows closed, pulling the heavy quilt from the hall closet, making chili with the last of the October pumpkins. It was the season of learning to live in fewer hours of light. Of checking on old neighbors. Of remembering where you put the ice scraper last April. "Looks like winter's decided to show up early

"Welcome. It's going to be a long one."