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The shepherds were out with their flocks according to the New Testament. That doesn't happen in winter, it happens in spring.
I saw that argument and they actually said they put them out after Passover (in spring) then bring them back in when it gets cold. That's months, right? And they're not exactly in frigid climes- definitely closer to temperate, so that easily extends well into the late fall.
Again though, that was written later (A lot later) by someone (who wasn't there) specifically to try and give a time frame. There's no way it was an actual description of what happened, but them setting a scene ... that has trouble standing up to historical critique.