Editing North (section)

==Seasons==
[[File:Thaldir Wolves of the North.jpg|thumb|350px|Wolves of the North by Tiziano Baracchi © Fantasy Flight Games]]
The north has cool days and cold nights during summertime.{{ref|AGOT|27}}

Once [[autumn]] is declared by the [[Citadel]], the lords of the north store away a part of the grain they have harvested. How much is a matter of choice; between one fifth and one fourth seems prudent, however.{{Ref|ACOK|16}} Additionally food is smoked, salted, and otherwise preserved ahead of winter. Coastal communities depend on fish and inland ice fishing is common on the rivers and [[Long Lake]]. Poor harvests before winter will mean famine, however.<ref name=winter/>

The north is strongly affected during the long winters, with thousands of people killed and famine a common occurrence due to poor harvests before winter or the inability to raise crops during the longer winters that last for years on end. Some greater lords maintain greenhouses at their castles, such as the [[glass gardens]] of [[Winterfell]].<ref name=winter>[[So Spake Martin]]: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/The_Effects_of_Winter/ The Effects of Winter], June 21, 2001</ref>

In winter, snows can fall forty feet deep.<ref name=TheonI>''[[The Winds of Winter]]'', [[Theon I (The Winds of Winter)|Theon I]]</ref> Rain falls cold and hard, and sometimes turns into ice that can send men running for cover and ruin crops.{{Ref|AGOT|28}} Even during summer, snowfalls are not unusual but tend to be brief and not particularly damaging to agriculture.{{Ref|AGOT|4}}