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Because of the excessive heat and inadequately experienced drivers attempting to access the desert in the past, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources has decided since 2008-2009 to close the Simpson Desert during the summer — to save unprepared " adventurers " from themselves.
A design with too much equator-facing glass can result in excessive winter, spring, or fall day heating, uncomfortably bright living spaces at certain times of the year, and excessive heat transfer on winter nights and summer days.
As a landscape plant, they can be killed by excessive water during their summer dormant phase.
Protected from excessive summer heat by river breezes and a canopy of oak trees, the house was an agreeable place to live in.
Oregon-grape is resistant to summer drought, tolerates poor soils, and does not create excessive leaf litter.
For example, during the early spring or late winter a Flood Warning can be issued for an ice jam that occurs on a river, while in the summer a Flood Warning will most likely be issued for excessive rainfall.
According to the Agency for Health care Research and Quality, about 6, 200 Americans are hospitalized each summer due to excessive heat, and those at highest risk are poor, uninsured or elderly.
In summer excessive dry heat is accompanied by dust storms and Loo, traits more commonly seen in desert climates.
The climate is mostly continental, with an average 92 days of frost a year ( 16 days with temperatures below-10 degrees Celsius ), but also with 92 days of summer, prone to excessive heat and drought.
During the armed conflict in 1998 Yugoslav Army and Serbian police used excessive and random force, which resulted in property damage, displacement of population and death of civilians Some consider that Belgrade had already unleashed Operation Horseshoe as early as the summer of 1998, when hundreds of thousands of Kosovar Albanians were driven from their homes.
The League Commission concluded that the pitch had suffered too much wear and tear from excessive use, and Luton installed a new surface during the summer of 1989, at the cost of £ 60, 000.
On May 26, the iron-steel tunnels were electronically plugged, and on May 27, ement had completely dried out due to the excessive heat of the summer desert as the engineers had certified that the concrete had hardened and the site was fit for the tests it was communicated to the Prime Minister via the GHQ that the site was ready.
In summer 1787, he made an extended and rigorous tour of the midlands and north of Ireland, but his excessive consumption of claret was by now taking a toll upon his health.
In the summer of 1916, in response to low pay, excessive working hours, poor safety conditions, and the company's refusal to rehire workers who had been drafted into the Greek army and recently demobilized, the 460 miners formed a union and organized a strike.
In climates and regions needing to reduce excessive summer passive solar heat gain, whether from the direct or reflected sources, can be done with a Brise soleil, trees, attached pergolas with vines, vertical gardens, green roofs, and other techniques.
In climates and regions needing to reduce excessive summer passive solar heat gain, whether from the direct or reflected sources, can be done with a Brise soleil, trees, attached pergolas with vines, vertical gardens, green roofs, and other techniques.
Samgyetang is traditionally served in the summer for its supposed nutrients, which replaces those lost through excessive sweating and physical exertion during the hot summers in Korea.
Deciduous trees are often planted in front of windows to block excessive sun in summer with their leaves but allow light through in winter when their leaves fall off.

summer and heat
In the heat of the summer, the garden solitudes were ours alone ; ;
`` P. J. '' -- as Ludie called the town -- was crowded with summer people who came to the mountains to escape the heat in the big cities.
Take precautions now, to be sure you avoid those unpleasant and costly heat breakdowns when the temperature zooms this summer.
The heat of summer is tempered in the south by the winds from the Gulf of Mexico, and in the north by the elevation above the sea.
Alcaeus exhorts his friends to drink in celebration of a tyrant's death, to drink away their sorrows, to drink because life is short and along the lines in vino veritas, to drink through winter storms and to drink through the heat of summer.
The thermal mass of this system is sufficiently inexpensive and large that it can store enough summer heat to warm a building for the whole winter, and enough winter cold to cool the building in summer.
Other things associated with fire and yellow bile in ancient and medieval medicine included the season of summer, since it increased the qualities of heat and aridity ; the choleric temperament ( of a person dominated by the yellow bile humour ); the masculine ; and the eastern point of the compass.
The city can experience extreme winter cold waves and summer heat waves that may last for several consecutive days.
Storing an emulsion at high temperatures enables the simulation of realistic conditions for a product ( e. g. a tube of sunscreen emulsion in a car in the summer heat ), but also to accelerate destabilization processes up to 200 times.
** Thermidor ( or Fervidor ) ( from Greek thermon, " summer heat "), starting 19 or 20 July
There are also seasonal jokes, with snow-related gags common in January or February and beach or heat themed jokes in the summer.
Young chickens are braised with ginseng and other ingredients in medicinal soups eaten during the summer months to combat heat called samgyetang.
Hot foods consumed are believed to restore ki, as well as sexual and physical stamina lost in the summer heat Commonly eaten boyangshik include: ginseng, chicken, dog, abalone, eel, carp, bone marrow, pig kidneys and black goat.
The most popular of these soups is gaejang-guk ( also called bosintang ), a spicy stew which is believed by consumers to balance the body's heat during the summer months ; followers of the custom claim this is done to ensure good health by balancing one's gi, or vital energy of the body.
Winters are mild and dry, while the summers are warm and humid ; the proximity to the sea maintains humidity levels at a near-constant high and cool sea breezes relieve the heat of the summer months.
The country suffered along with the rest of Northwestern Europe during a heat wave in the summer of 2006.
Temperatures exceed numerous times each summer, and the combination of heat and humidity can bring the humidex value to the mid-40s.
Summers are warm and pleasant with average high temperatures of and lows of around, but temperatures do sometimes exceed and occasional heat waves are common during the summer.
The animals then use the warm-season grasses during the heat of the summer, and the cool-season grasses recover for fall grazing.
By mid-February the temperatures rise ; springtime weather continues until mid-April, when the summer heat sets in.
The long summer ( May through September ) is characterized by intense heat and alternating dryness and humidity, with temperatures reaching.
It protects the dogs effectively against harsh Arctic winters, but the coat also reflects heat in the summer.

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While white is the coolest summer shade, there are lots of pastel hues along with tintable fabrics that will blend with any wardrobe color.
His visit to Warsaw, Poland, after the Russian journey in the summer of 1959 was expected to win the Polish vote which, in several cities, is substantial.
The Black Hills Passion Play is produced every summer and is a pageant worth seeing and shooting.
A back-yard picnic with grilled frankfurters and a selection of frankfurter trimmings is a fine way to entertain guests this summer.
We know, too, that health is never harmed by summer cooling.
It costs two to three times as much to remove a BTU in summer as it does to add one in winter, so every solitary BTU is worth attention.
a stream or pond which is attractive in the springtime may become stagnant or dry in late summer.
The Champs Elysees is literally littered this summer with the prostrate bodies of France's beat-up beatnik jeunes filles.
By the middle of the summer, many of the larvae apparently receive such a good diet that it is `` optimal '', and it is then that young queens begin to appear.
It is an amazing fact that in some species this will happen while the summer is still in full swing, for instance, in August.
The life history of the alkali bee is similar to that of Andrena, but the first activity of the adults does not take place until summer, and the individuals hibernate in the prepupal stage.
It is significant that the Catskills, which used to be the summer playground for older teen-agers, a kind of summer suburb of New York, no longer attracts them in great numbers -- except for those who work there as waiters, bus boys, or counselors in the day camps.
The Harbor is a big yachting basin in the summer.
She is vacationing at the Kennedy summer home in Hyannis Port, Mass., and in his welcoming remarks, the President said he was representing her.
In the other hemisphere it is growing colder and nymphs, those who stayed alive through the summer, are being brought into nests for quickening and more growing ''.
The lawn weed crabgrass is a summer annual.
An alp refers to a high mountain pasture where cows are taken to be grazed during the summer months and where hay barns can be found, and the term " the Alps ", referring to the mountains, is a misnomer.
With over 120 million visitors a year tourism is integral to the Alpine economy with much it coming from winter sports although summer visitors are an important component of the tourism industry.
Thus at Mobile the annual mean is 67 ° F ( 19 ° C ), the mean for the summer 81 ° F ( 27 ° C ), and for the winter 52 ° F ( 11 ° C ); and at Valley Head, in De Kalb county, the annual mean is 59 ° F ( 15 ° C ), the mean for the summer 75 ° F ( 24 ° C ), and for the winter 41 ° F ( 5 ° C ).

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