WORCESTER — Somehow, in the chaotic year that 2020 has been, the arrival of the winter solstice may seem more bleak than in years ... though some of the snow melted away as temperatures rose.

Consider “Christmas Time Is Here ... what it’s like in the middle of the winter: “Earth stood hard as iron”; “water like a stone”; “Snow on snow on snow.” As a Chicago native ...

At the heart of this winter is a cultural rather than a religious Christmas ... Rachel sings “The Snow It Melts the Soonest” to a bleak, lovely instrumental backing, drifting and dropping ...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- Syracuse’s prospects of a white Christmas look bleak this year with no snow forecasted for the area to start the week and warm weather likely to reduce an snow remaining on the ...