Saturday marks the shortest day of the year and the official start of winter in the Northern Hemisphere. NPR has compiled plenty of expert tips for celebrating the solstice and weathering winter.

The winter solstice is the shortest day and longest night of the year, marking the start of the winter season in the Northern Hemisphere Skyler Caruso is a Writer and Reporter of PEOPLE Digital ...

It is never easy to get up from a warm bed into a cold and dark winter morning ... A poem for this very day, the solstice, the shortest day, what John Donne called the ‘year’s midnight ...