The El Niño winter of 2006 / 2007 was unusually mild in Europe, and the Alps recorded very little snow coverage that season.

In Canada, La Niña will in general cause a cooler, snowier winter, such as the near-record-breaking amounts of snow recorded in the La Niña winter of 2007 / 2008 in Eastern Canada.

The workforce in Jersey tends to increase during the summer months, with around 3, 500 more people employed in the summer of 2008 than in the winter of 2007.

In the winter 2007 / 2008 The Sea Stallion was exhibited outside the National Museum in Dublin.

A study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research in July 2007, Nuclear winter revisited with a modern climate model and current nuclear arsenals: Still catastrophic consequences, used current climate models to look at the consequences of a global nuclear war involving most or all of the world's current nuclear arsenals ( which the authors described as being only about a third the size of the world's arsenals twenty years earlier ).

Recent studies ( 2006 ) substantiate that smoke from urban firestorms in a local nuclear war would lead to long lasting global cooling but in a less dramatic manner than a global nuclear war, while a 2007 study of the effects of global nuclear war supported the conclusion that it would lead to full-scale nuclear winter.

In addition, the authors of the 2007 study above state that " because of the use of the term ' nuclear autumn ' by Thompson and Schneider, even though the authors made clear that the climatic consequences would be large, in policy circles the theory of nuclear winter is considered by some to have been exaggerated and disproved Martin, 1988.

With eleven free agents excluding Jason Schmidt who signed with the Dodgers for roughly $ 15 million a year, a new manager on board with Bruce Bochy coming from division rival San Diego, and the loss of veteran catcher Mike Matheny due to complications resulting from concussions sustained during his career, the Giants ' prospects for the 2007 season were less than favorable going into the winter off-season.

During winter, average temperatures in the city center fall below freezing levels (− 2 ° C / 28 ° F ) and significant accumulations of snow can occur: the historic average of Milan's area is during the period between 1950 and 2007, with a record of during the snowfall of January 1985.

The first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean was achieved in the winter of 2006 / 2007 by the solar catamaran Sun21.

* " The Winter Weather Authority " ( 2006 – 2007 winter season )

During the winter 2006 / 2007 winter sports activity was strongly restrained by the lack of snow.

Formed in the winter of 2007 by Seth Newton, Eric Trabucco, Brian Marcou, David Jewers ( 2007 – 2010 ) and Roderick Macdonald ( 2007 – 2008 ).

* Jitsuroku Rengō Sekigun, Asama sansō e no michi, United Red Army ( The Way to Asama Mountain Lodge ), 2007, shows the horrors of the United Red Army winter camp, but also the history of the militant Japanese student movement.

As part of Dubois County, Huntingburg re-entered the Eastern Time Zone on November 4, 2007 after 15 months on the Central Time Zone as a result of objections from residents unhappy with the 4: 30 p. m. darkness during winter months on Central Time.

In September 2007, for instance, Air Malta made two agreements with Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways by which Air Malta wet-leased two Airbus aircraft to Etihad Airways for the winter period starting 1 September 2007, and provided operational support on another Airbus A320 aircraft leased by Etihad Airways.

This area closed in winter 2007 and has been rethemed to Curious George.

As of 2007, the total number of tourist overnight stays is roughly the same for summer and winter season, with peaks in February and July / August.

In the winter semester 2006 / 2007 nearly all studies have been changed according to Bachelor / Master system.

But whenever a major purchase was contemplated forty years ago -- a new bedroom set or a winter coat, an Easter bonnet, a bicycle for Junior -- the family set off for the downtown department store, where the selection would be greatest.

The rise in sales last winter was checked when the Government's new feed grain program was adopted ; ;

Night after night he stayed with Gunny in the dead of winter, rubbing her with quarts of expensive liniment, fussing over her bran mash as the cook did over charlotte russe, tracking manure on the pretty new carpet when he did come to the house.

During the post-World War I period ski-lifts were built in Swiss and Austrian towns to accommodate winter visitors, but summer tourism continued to be important ; by the mid-20th century the popularity of downhill skiing increased greatly as it became more accessible and in the 1970s several new villages were built in France devoted almost exclusively to skiing, such a Les Menuires.

After the death of Ahmad Shah in about 1772, his son Timur Shah became the next ruler of the Durrani dynasty who decided to make Kabul the new capital of the empire, and used Peshawar as the winter capital.

Suddenly a new winter sport was born, centred in Quebec.

Annual winter training takes place at NAF El Centro, California, where new and returning pilots hone skills learned in the fleet.

In cold regions, chives die back to the underground bulbs in winter, with the new leaves appearing in early spring.

( This means the new year starts on the second new moon after the winter solstice unless there is an 11th or 12th intercalary month, in which case it starts on the third new moon.

) A calendar using this new year is often referred to as " the Xia Calendar " ( 夏曆 / 夏历 ), following the Shiji which states that under the Xia Dynasty, the year began on the second new moon after the winter solstice.

Tradition holds that, in that era, the year began on the first new moon after the winter solstice.

Although tradition holds that in the Zhou, the year began on the new moon which preceded the winter solstice, the Spring and Autumn Annals seem to indicate that ( in Lu at least ) the Yin calendar ( the calendar used in Shang dynasty, with years beginning on the first new moon after the winter solstice ) was in use until the middle of the 7th century, and that the beginning of the year was shifted back one month around 650 BC.

The year began on the new moon preceding the winter solstice, and intercalary months were inserted at the end of the year.

It followed the same principles as the Sifen calendar, except the year began one month before ( the second new moon before the winter solstice, which now fell in the second month of the year ).

Other reasons include: a ) changes in plant canopy caused by shifts in plant biomass production associated with moisture regime ; b ) changes in litter cover on the ground caused by changes in both plant residue decomposition rates driven by temperature and moisture dependent soil microbial activity as well as plant biomass production rates ; c ) changes in soil moisture due to shifting precipitation regimes and evapo-transpiration rates, which changes infiltration and runoff ratios ; d ) soil erodibility changes due to decrease in soil organic matter concentrations in soils that lead to a soil structure that is more susceptible to erosion and increased runoff due to increased soil surface sealing and crusting ; e ) a shift of winter precipitation from non-erosive snow to erosive rainfall due to increasing winter temperatures ; f ) melting of permafrost, which induces an erodible soil state from a previously non-erodible one ; and g ) shifts in land use made necessary to accommodate new climatic regimes.

During the 1980s, anime gained in popularity, with new animated movies released every summer and winter, often based upon popular anime television series.

* The winter of renovations focused on renovating the luxury boxes as well as adding a new food concourse area and renovated bathrooms behind the third base grandstands.

As the long winter of 1861 turned into spring, that old flag meant something new.

After seeing an early film of this event, French skiers / surfers Augustin Coppey, Olivier Lehaneur, Olivier Roland and Antoine Yarmola made their first successful attempts during the winter of 1983 in France ( Val Thorens ), using primitive, home-made clones of the Winterstick.

* The events of the 2011 fictional movie Super 8 ( film ) take place during the winter and summer of 1979.

In the winter of 1969 – 70, Eastwood and Siegel began planning his next film, The Beguiled, a tale of a wounded Union soldier, held captive by the sexually repressed matron of a southern girl's school.

Window insulation film can be applied in weatherization applications to reduce incoming thermal radiation in summer and loss in winter.

François Ozon's 8 Femmes featured the winter scenes and the deer from the film.

Returning to Los Angeles, Murnau spent the winter editing the film and used the last of his money to hire Hugo Riesenfeld for the music scoring.

Gods of the Plague ( Götter der Pest ) is a bleak gangster film with a winter setting shot mostly indoors and at night.

During the winter of 2010 / 2011, Troma produced a feature length film Father's Day, which Kaufman calls " a response film to Mother's Day ".

The film is shown continuously on television in the resort's guest rooms and nightly at the Opera House during the winter season.

Although a biography claims it was actually filmed in the winter of 1978 – 1979, the film was not released until 1986.

The scale of the Conservatives ' victory in the general election has often been ascribed to the effect of the strikes, and the party used film of the events of the winter in election campaigns for years to come.

In the winter of 1958, Brown went back to Hawaii to film the North Shore's big surf.

The half-hour 16mm film was shot over the winter of 1930 in the logging woods and shows logging in the forest with hand tools and horses, then moves to the spring log drive, with loggers using peaveys to break up log jams on icy rivers as the logs are moved from the forest to the mill.

The first episode of the BBC television comedy Blackadder in part parodies the Olivier film, visually ( as in the crown motif ), Peter Cook's performance as a benevolent Richard, and by mangling Shakespearean text (" Now is the summer of our sweet content made o ' ercast winter by these Tudor clouds ...")

The 2010 film, The King's Speech, features a scene where the king's speech therapist Lionel Logue, as played by Geoffrey Rush, auditions for the role by reciting the lines, " Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this sun son of York ,".

An annual tradition is a double feature viewing of The Thing ( a horror film set in Antarctica ) and The Shining ( a horror film about an isolated winter caretaker ) after the last flight has left for the winter.

The film continued to open in European countries throughout the fall and winter of 1998, and ultimately grossed $ 17, 718, 646 outside of the United States.

Various promotional schemes were tried: in 1954 the small town of Saranac Lake, New York ( home of the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium ) won a nationwide competition selling Christmas Seals, the reward for which was hosting the world premiere of the Paul Newman film, The Silver Chalice ; the cast participated in a parade in the town's annual winter carnival.

The film will be released on a Blu-Ray Special Edition in winter 2012.

Iwai collaborated with cinematographer Noboru Shinoda to produce a film praised for its evocative winter cinematography.