User blog comment:DemonicsFire/volume 4 and the "new" ages/@comment-14539881-20160711154217/@comment-26018514-20160712070723

I'm not saying it's magical... I'm saying it's possibly closer to a dry/wet climate situation, if we have 12 months with a 3 month climate split, then yes, we have a good estimate with autumn and winter.

If, however, we have a locale that sits closer to winter for six-nine months and goes through the other seasons in the course of less than 6-3, then we have a single point(Autumn) that says it went through the thaw, but we don't have enough other references to say it went through a full Winter Cycle.