Dear Nick et al.,
Here's my contribution to your Soltice gaiety, such as it is: a
follow-the-bouncing-ball-style
MP4 (prepared on the cheap with Wondershare Filmora's screen-capture) of my C&W
"Solstice
Song" (rendered, both as score and MIDI performance, by the excellent freeware
MuseScore),
This is kind of fun.
https://www.weather.gov/abq/clifeatures_wintersolstice
What they don't discuss here is the influence of the oceans. The oceans
reach their lowest and highest temperatures, respectively, on March and
September 1. So, The coldest day of the year in Massachusetts is on