Is Winter Going To Be Brutal

When is the winter going to come in Game of Thrones TV series and the novel series?

Spoilers:So we know the seasons in ASOIAF/Game of Thrones are dependent upon some unknown magical force, rather than a simple turning of the earth that happens on a steady cycle.Maesters of the Citadel send out white ravens at the changing of the seasons.Summer ended when the Maesters sent out white ravens in book/season 2. For the events after that, it was fall. In book 5, and what I expect to be the very end of season 5, a second white raven gets sent out to announce that it is now winter.My assumption is that winter and the Others are intimately linked. Not such that the Others control winter, so much as both of them are a part of some deeper magic in opposition to what the red priests call R'hllor, with neither being "evil" or "good," just two powerful forces in constant opposition, following in the theme of moral ambiguity throughout the series. This isn't a tale of good and evil.The return of winter (which we will see in earnest in book/season 6, and through much of book/season 7 till I expect to see Bran, working with or through Jon without his knowledge, bring the spring and put the two forces back into balance) will coincide with the rise of the Others. Much like winter has been hanging around the fringes of the story, so have the Others. In book 6 both will come out in full force. As winter hits its worst, the War for Dawn (or whatever it comes to be known as) will be at its heaviest. I expect this to start mid book 6, have a cliffhanger ending about the nature of the war, with it concluded by the beginning of spring (and whatever else that means in terms of how it concludes) in late book 7.Thanks for the A2A

Is it very cold in winter in Salt Lake City?

Cold compared to what?Compared to Vegas, or San Diego, it’s very cold.Compared to most places on the coast, it’s relatively cold.Compared to Minneapolis, or even Denver, it’s quite warm.The kicker here is elevation. Many places North of us, like, say Spokane or Boise, are about the same or warmer than Salt Lake because we are some 2500–3000 feet higher than them.Even at our coldest, however, it’s not too bad. The average high temperature in January, our coldest month, is 38 degrees F. Our low is 26. That means that in the day, it gets above freezing, and melts the snow, and at night, it gets cold, and snows again. This can make for a slushy mess, but snow buildup isn’t usually a problem a problem.I have lived most of my life close to the Jordan river, the lowest point in the Salt Lake Valley. The cold air settles in the river bottoms, but even I have never seen temperatures below -15 F in the coldest cold snap.Roads in Salt Lake are also very well maintained in the winter, far better than most other cities I’ve visited.I must mention here that the worst part about living in Salt Lake isn’t the cold, it’s the air quality. During the winter, the cold air traps pollution down near the ground. Since it’s a valley, the whole thing tends to fill up like a bowl with pollution:That ain’t fog that you’re seeing….The air gets worse and worse until a big snowstorm comes in and washes it out. When the air gets like this, it looks like it’s overcast to those on the valley floor, even on a perfectly clear day. I have gone literally weeks without seeing the sun in stretches between snowstorms.

What is real winter in New York like?

Jennifer Huber-Julie is largely correct when thinking about winter in New York City in general, especially when compared to Minnesota, which defies the imagination of anyone who is not from the frozen north. I remember once in the early 1980s, working on the 14th floor of a building in Midtown Manhattan opposite Grand Central Terminal, watching a snow storm roll in. A colleague of mine was from the MN/Canada border, and he was just staring out the window as the snow descended. I asked him if it reminded him of home, to which he replied, no, there was nowhere near enough snow to remind him of MN.As a native New Yorker, however, I will respectfully demur that during times of very bad winters New York can become almost unbearable. The winter of '93-'94 comes to mind. I was living on West 110 Street, and teaching in PA, so I needed a car. That winter we had 19 snow storms (that's right, 19), and the roads were largely impassable most of the time. Even if you could dig your car out, you would get a ticket if you deposited the snow either in the street or sidewalk. And of course the plows would shortly bury you again, in advance of the next storm -- which would make it worse. Try negotiating your way around the city, including food shopping, when the streets are simply buried in snow. If it is a cold, wet winter the wind blows through the skyscraper canyons like a knife, and you quickly feel chilled to the very bone.   The good news is that that will not usually last very long. Perhaps two months. Minnesota is far, far, worse, but don't come to NYC thinking that the winters here are balmy.  Most of the time you will not mind them, if you are from Northern climes, but you may very well be in for a shock if you get a particularly heavy snow fall.