In the winter of 2008-2009, a combination of a cold winter and increased fuel prices led to economic hardship.

However, the winter of 2008-2009 was unusually cold and snowy, with over 50 inches of snow ( compared to an average of about 30 inches ) and days with temperatures below 0 degrees Fahrenheit in the morning.

There used to be a third, but in the winter of 2008-2009, Hawks ' Nest became an all tubing park, the largest on the East Coast.

During the winter of 2008-2009 opening hours were cut at Gloucester and Ellesmere Port to just two days per week in an effort to manage a tough financial situation.

During the winter of 2008-2009 she operated a weekly, fixed service between Halifax and St. Pierre et Miquelon carrying Ro-Ro ( Roll on-Roll off ), break bulk, containers and reefers.

During the 2008-2009 winter season, St. Mark's Boys Varsity Squash put together a remarkable season, going 13-3, 4 wins better than the previous best season in school history.

The campgrounds were closed in the winter of 2008-2009 due to the Basin Complex Fire, but most are open as of May 22, 2009.

During the winter, the largest bighorn sheep herd in the lower 48 states congregate in the region around Dubois, Wyoming ; however, their numbers since 1990 have been greatly diminished due to disease and coyote predation.

Because of the difficulty of travel and the hazards of wilderness survival during the winter months, it is the only major National Park Service park to close entirely for the season.

Snow normally falls on the Bimberi and Brindabella Ranges during winter, and is not uncommon throughout most of the park.

Hunting is a popular winter activity, with the park open to stalking ( hunting without dogs ) of Sambar deer from mid-February to mid-December.

Bottineau is well known for its winter park, snowmobiling, and ice fishing.

Nowadays the major uses of the park are skiing in winter and bushwalking in summer.

Over 630 species of wildflower are found within the park, that generally bloom toward the end of winter, including the Bird Flower and the Desert Sturt Pea.

Public usage of the park was mainly for wildflower observation in winter and spring according to a 1974 report, whose recommendation ( which was not followed ) would have seen it demoted to a flora and fauna conservation reserve.

Sylacauga offers many other opportunities for outdoor activities, including Noble Park, with a playground and picnic and grill areas as well as a quarter-mile walking track ; the Marble City BMX Track and skate park ; city pool that in converted to an indoor pool in the winter months ; Lake Howard which has area for boating, fishing, and pavilions ; several neighborhood parks ; the Sylaward Trail, a 15-mile hiking and mountain-biking trail that runs through the Talladega National Forest ; and two golf courses, Sylacauga Country Club and Farm Links.

* Baker Park-18 hole Golf Course & Pro Shop, Disc Golf Course, scenic drive through the park, home of the Twin Hills which is a local hotspot for sledding I the winter.

This park is known in the winter for its lighting display which is entirely volunteer driven.

In winter, residents also take advantage of two sled hills and an ice skating pond located at the park.

In the center of the community is a large park with two small wetlands that dry in the winter.

It is a ' four season park ' offering camping even in the winter.

It is a ' four season park ' offering camping even in the winter.

A restricted-access park with pier and harbor on southern Lake St. Clair, pool, playgrounds, picnic areas, volleyball courts, and ice-skating in the winter.

Canine friends enjoying winter play at South Euclid's dog park

Cascade park has a large playground and a large hill used for seating at the 4th of July fireworks show, and is a popular spot for sledding during winter months.

The park can only be accessed in the winter months by snowmobiling or cross-country skiing.

The park has views of the Spokane Falls, and holds a number of civic attractions, including a Skyride that is a rebuilt gondola that carries visitors across the falls from high above the river gorge, a 5-story IMAX theater, and a small amusement park ( which is converted into an ice-skating rink during the winter months ).

A statue for him can be found in the park at the Coehoornsingel, where in the harsh winter of 1795 English and Hanoverian soldiers were buried who had died while on retreat from advancing French troops.

Heavy snowfalls in this park during the fall, winter, and spring months force many road and trail closures, including the popular " Rim Drive ", which is generally completely open from July to October, and partially open in some other months, such as May, June, and November.

Årdal is a good starting point to explore the wild nature of the national park Jotunheimen, and with summer and winter activities within its boundaries.

The city's most prominent cultural venue is the downtown Harbourfront, a park on the shore of Lake of the Woods which hosts the city's annual winter and summer festivals, as well as concert series, and other special events.

Every winter a kegful of this sauce was made and placed at the end of a row of four other kegs in the cellar, so that when its turn came, it was properly mellowed.

I learned, for example, that he made a practice of yapping at dogs he encountered and, in winter, of sprinkling salt on the icy pavement to scarify their feet.

The grant, which stretched southward to Lake Traverse -- the headwaters of the Red -- was made in May, 1811, and by October of that year a small group of Scots was settling for the winter at York Factory on Hudson Bay.

Despite the harshness of winter in most parts, the fertility of the plateau's volcanic soil made Armenia one of the world's earliest sites of agricultural activity.

After spending the winter organizing a cavalry force ( hippeis ), he made a successful incursion into Lydia in the spring of 395 BC.

Bishop Asser claimed that the ' pagans ' agreed to vacate the realm and made good their promise ; and, indeed, the Viking army did withdraw from Reading in the autumn of 871 to take up winter quarters in Mercian London.

Sobel made her first foray into teaching at the University of Chicago as the Vare Writer-in-Residence in the winter of 2006.

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.

Oxford made the acquaintance of the mathematician and astrologer John Dee in the winter of 1570 and became interested in occultism, studying magic and conjuring.

During the winter of 1945 to 1946 Orwell made several hopeless and unwelcome marriage proposals to younger women, including Celia Kirwan ( who was later to become Arthur Koestler's sister-in-law ), Ann Popham who happened to live in the same block of flats and Sonia Brownell, one of Connolly's coterie at the Horizon office.

The arrival of the railways in 1855 quickly made it redundant, as trains could carry passengers and goods far more rapidly and did not have to shut down with the arrival of winter, which made the canal impassable for five months of the year.

The decision to build a major seaport at the Gdynia village was made by the Polish government in the winter of 1920, in the midst of the Polish-Soviet War ( 1919 – 1920 ).

One report, written by a commercial collector in the 1940s, noted a trend of more crayfish predation in the summer during times of higher prey activity, whereas fish made up a larger part of the winter diet while crayfish are less active.

He was made Under-Secretary of State for Social Security in 1985, before being promoted to become Minister of State in the same department in 1986, first attracting national media attention over cold weather payments to the elderly in January 1987, when Britain was in the depths of a severe winter.

A porridge made with azuki beans, called patjuk, is commonly eaten during the winter season.

Marmite can also be made into a winter drink by adding one teaspoon to a mug of hot water much like Bovril.

Peggy made her Atlanta society debut in the 1920 winter season.

It is made up of mostly desert and semiarid climate regions, daytime summer temperatures sometimes may rise as high as and nighttime winter temperatures may reach as low as.

However, a 1988 article by Brian Martin in Science and Public Policy states that although their paper concluded the effects would be less severe than originally thought, with the authors describing these effects as a " nuclear autumn ", other statements by Thompson and Schneider show that they " resisted the interpretation that this means a rejection of the basic points made about 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.

In an interview in 2000, Mikhail Gorbachev, in response to the comment " In the 1980s, you warned about the unprecedented dangers of nuclear weapons and took very daring steps to reverse the arms race ," said " Models made by Russian and American scientists showed that a nuclear war would result in a nuclear winter that would be extremely destructive to all life on Earth ; the knowledge of that was a great stimulus to us, to people of honor and morality, to act in that situation.

::" Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York " ( Son / sun )

A trial winter ( 1 June – 31 August ) sprinkler ban was introduced in 2009 by the State Government, a move which the Government later announced would be made permanent.