It is curious that even centuries of repetition of the yearly cycle did not induce a sufficient degree of confidence to allow people to abandon the ceremonies of the winter solstice.

If the plants are cared for and protected over the winter, the second year is more prolific than the first.

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.

Even some of the queens will die before the winter is over, falling prey to enemies or disease.

The details of the setting of `` Neutral Tones '' are not, strictly speaking, metaphorical, but they combine to create a mood which is appropriate both to a dismal winter day and to the end of love, and in this way love and weather, the emotions and the elements, symbolize each other in a way that is common to many of Hardy's best poems ( `` Weathers '', `` The Darkling Thrush '', and `` During Wind and Rain '', for example ) and to some moving passages in the novels as well ( Far From The Madding Crowd is full of scenes constructed in this way ).

for those who live in a winter climate, there is nothing better than a bucket of water and snow.

Yet Dartmouth still is the dominant member of the Intercollegiate Ski Union, which includes the winter sports colleges of Canada as well as those of this country.

The Troop is proud of its camping-out program -- on year-round schedule and was continued even when sub-zero temperatures were registered during the past winter.

The seeds germinate in the fall or winter when the soil temperature is cool.

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 ).

At Montgomery, in the central region, the average annual temperature is 66 ° F ( 19 ° C ), with a winter average of 49 ° F ( 9 ° C ), and a summer average of 81 ° F ( 27 ° C ).

The average winter minimum for the entire state is 35 ° F ( 2 ° C ), and there is an average of 35 days in each year in which the thermometer falls below the freezing-point.

During each winter there is usually one fall of snow in the south and two in the north ; but the snow quickly disappears, and sometimes, during an entire winter, the ground is not covered with snow.

The Northern Hemisphere is considered to be halfway through its summer and the Southern Hemisphere halfway through its winter on this day.

The season runs during the winter and is called the Fiesta Brava.

If the hardships of the winter at Valley Forge were trying for healthy men, they were, of course, much more so for those not in good health.

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.

Until this point Austria and Switzerland had been the traditional and more popular destinations for winter sports, but by the end of the 20th century and into the early 21st century, France, Italy and the Tyrol began so see increases in winter visitors.

Australian football has attracted more overall interest among Australians ( as measured by the Sweeney Sports report ) than any other football code, and, when compared with all sports throughout the nation, has consistently ranked first in the winter reports, and most recently third behind cricket and swimming in summer.

Adult Culicoides are killed by cold winter temperatures, and BTV infections typically do not last for more than 60 days, which is not long enough for BTV to last until the next spring.

These birds are generally solitary or found in pairs early in the year, but family groups are common in the late summer and winter roosts may have two dozen or more birds in a single covey.

In the summer of 1942, when Germany launched another offensive in the southern USSR against Stalingrad and the Caucasus, the Soviets again lost tremendous amounts of territory, only to counter-attack once more during winter.

However, over time, many artists have begun to focus more on topics like the seasons ( particularly winter ), nature, mythology, folklore, philosophy and fantasy.

Tourism is traditionally a notable source of income, particularly during the summer months, but also more recently during the winter months as well, due to an increase in popularity of snow sports such as skiing.

They will commonly work in teams when hunting large ungulates such as deer, which is more common in winter ( when large prey is likely weakened ) and in larger-bodied northern coyotes.

For more than two thousand years, since the time of Emperor Wu of Han, the month containing the winter solstice has almost always been the 11th month.

However conversely in winter, easterly winds render the city more prone to snow showers.

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.

Late spring, summer, and autumn afforded abundance, while winter meals were more sparse.

The summer Trade Winds and winter swells of the Atlantic make this a year-round surfers ' paradise, with more exposed areas on the north and west shores such as Corralejo and El Cotillo proving most popular.

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.

Over the past several years, tourism and exports of textiles, apparel, and nontraditional agricultural products such as winter vegetables, fruit, and cut flowers have boomed, while more traditional exports such as sugar, bananas, and coffee continue to represent a large share of the export market.

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.

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 summer the temperatures average more than and in winter average.

Frost occurs when the temperatures are at least below ; rain is more common and falls mostly in the winter and spring.

In the winter, their digestive systems slow nearly to a halt, and they eat very little, perhaps no more than nibbles of algae from the bottom.

On the Coast, rainfall, sometimes relentless heavy rain, dominates in winter because of consistent barrages of cyclonic low-pressure systems from the North Pacific, but on occasion ( and not every winter ) heavy snowfalls and below freezing temperatures arrive when modified arctic air reaches coastal areas, typically for short periods.

It is distinguished from the cismontain chapparal found on the coastal side of the mountains, which experiences higher winter rainfall.

Species that originated from the coastal areas and from the lower foothills make most of their growth in winter whereas the true alpine species are summer growers.

In fact, it is this pleasant winter weather that both the city and the surrounding coastal region, the Sunshine Coast, is named after and internationally renowned for.

The Santa Ana winds are strong, extremely dry offshore winds that affect coastal Southern California and northern Baja California in autumn and winter.

However, conditions in both winter and summer are moderated by the city's coastal location: temperatures are at their lowest in late January / early February, with February being the coolest month, averaging.

With coastal mountains to the west of Hillsborough, it is blocked in the winter from much of the rainfall over Half Moon Bay, and in the summer it is blocked from virtually all the fog of the coast.

Because of its geology and the weathering that occurs here, there are frequent coastal collapses especially in winter.

After a winter sojourn at the chateau of the Comte de Graçay, during which he has an affair with the nobleman's widowed daughter-in-law, the escapees travel down the Loire river to the coastal city of Nantes.

Many northern cities are also able to use the Alps as an attraction for winter sports, while coastal southern cities have the Mediterranean Sea to draw tourists looking for sun.

Berlevåg's coastal location serves to moderate temperatures during winter, receiving heat from the Gulf stream.

Fynbos (; ) is the natural shrubland or heathland vegetation occurring in a small belt of the Western Cape of South Africa, mainly in winter rainfall coastal and mountainous areas with a Mediterranean climate.

It has a beach ( and therefore is a likely a coastal city ) and receives snow in the winter.

It is a common breeding species over much of its vast Eurasian range, but in North Africa it is mainly a winter visitor, although it is a scarce breeding resident in coastal Morocco and Tunisia.

Breezes from the Pacific Ocean tend to keep the beach community cooler in summer and warmer in winter than those in further inland Los Angeles ; summer temperatures can sometimes be as much as 18 ° F ( 10 ° C ) warmer in the inland communities compared to that of San Pedro and other Los Angeles coastal communities.

It is a regular winter visitor around the coastal areas of Pakistan in small numbers.

Subspecies caniceps of southern India is found in winter in the dry coastal zone of southern India.

The park also experiences severe coastal erosion as a result of winter storms and its vulnerable shoreline.

Most birds move to more open or coastal waters in winter, but it is only migratory in those parts of its range where the waters freeze.

Frost is frequent in winter months, less in coastal areas.

In winter, it will utilise a wider range of open habitats, such as sheltered estuaries, brackish marshes and coastal lagoons.

They breed on subantarctic islands and the Antarctic Peninsula, and the Snowy Sheathbill migrates to the Falkland Islands and coastal southern South America in the southern winter ; they are the only bird family endemic as breeders to the Antarctic region.

They are migratory, the majority of the groups spend the winter around the artic ice cap but when the sea ice melts in summer they move to warmer river estuaries and coastal areas.