A recent, somewhat experimental solar heating system " Annualized geo solar heating " is practical even in regions that get little or no sunlight in winter.

The most recent case was in early 1987, which was the most severe winter in Scandinavia since that date.

The average seasonal winter temperature is, but recent winters have been warmer than this.

One recent study notes that the difference between summer and winter flow volumes has increased significantly in the last 100 – 200 years.

The cumulative cooling and warming that result from the tilt of the planet become most pronounced after the solstices, leading to the more recent custom of using them to mark the beginning of summer and winter in most countries of Central and Northern Europe, as well as in Canada, the USA and New Zealand.

Cultural influences such as Christmas creep may have led to the winter season being perceived as beginning earlier in recent years, although high latitude countries like Canada are usually well into their real winters before the December solstice.

The recent warmer climate has led to more summer melting and more winter melting events, reducing winter snowpack.

Maximum temperature ranges from 5 – 10 ° C ( 41 – 50 ° F ) in the winter to 20 – 25 ° C ( 68 – 77 ° F ) in the summer, although temperatures have been known to reach 35 ° C ( 95 ° F ) in recent years.

In recent years, however, the hot, dry days during the winter have been increasingly frequent, often surpassing 30 ° C, especially between July and September.

However recent developments have brought a change, especially since winter ski resorts such as Arlberg or Kitzbühel are now more and more frequented by Eastern Europeans, Russians and Americans.

In recent years winter have become erratic, with the first snowfall of winter 2006-2007 not reported until mid-late January.

The most recent such winter was 2002 – 2003, when Keene received 112. 5 " of snow.

The beaches that sit on the coast with the Long Island Sound are constantly endangered by recent harsh winter storms.

Voss is a winter sports center and has in recent times been the home of many world-class athletes in several winter sports, most prominently biathlon, but also alpine skiing, nordic skiing and freestyle skiing.

When the remains were dated to some 26, 000 years ago it was thought the Red Lady lived at a time when an ice sheet of the most recent glacial period, in the British Isles called the Devensian Glaciation, would have been advancing towards the site, and that consequently the weather would have been more like that of present day Siberia, with maximum temperatures of perhaps 10 ° C in summer ,-20 ° in winter, and a tundra vegetation.

In recent decades, the number of birds remaining on the breeding grounds all year has been noted to increase e. g. in Fennoscandia, whereas for example borealis seems to be as rare a winter visitor in northern Ohio as it was a century ago.

Shipping has declined in recent decades with the decline of rail service to ports and the increased capacity of highways to larger ports outside of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which freezes in the winter.

In Great Britain, the Gadwall is a scarce-breeding bird and winter visitor, though its population has increased in recent years.

Avocets have become regular autumn and winter visitors to the area in recent years, favouring the lower reaches of the River Parrett.

The relative humidity is high throughout the year, especially in winter when it causes fog, mainly from dusk till late morning, although the phenomenon has become increasingly less frequent in recent years.

The Common Gull occurs as a scarce winter visitor to coastal eastern Canada and as a vagrant to the northeastern USA, and there is one recent record of Mew Gull in Europe on the Azores.

However, recent classifications have abandoned Mon – Khmer as a taxon, either reducing it in scope or making it synonymous with the larger family ( Diffloth 2005, Sidwell 2009 ).

The most recent elections to the House of Representatives were held on 12 March 2009.

Bulgaria's most recent full-scale exercise simulating a foreign invasion was carried out in 2009.

The most recent election, the German federal election, 2009, was held on September 27, 2009.

The most recent tour visited South Africa in May – July 2009, and before that the Lions toured New Zealand in 2005.

According to the most recent classification scheme, the APG III of 2009, the order includes five families: Commelinaceae, Haemodoraceae, Hanguanaceae, Philydraceae, and Pontederiaceae.

Italy is the most recent to ratify it, on 3 March 2009.

In recent years, Craven Cottage has hosted several International Friendly matches, including the Republic of Ireland national football team who played Colombia and Nigeria there in May 2008 and May 2009 respectively and Oman in 2012.

The Korea Republic national football team have also used the ground twice in recent years for international friendlies, first against Greece in February 2007 and then against Serbia in November 2009.

The most recent translation is by Bill Porter ( Red Pine ) ( Copper Canyon Press, 2009 ) and distinguishes itself in its extensive commentary by scores of poets, monks, and Chinese scholars.

Topp and Martin Hamilton of Kew Gardens compiled the most recent checklist of vegetation in 2009, which can be found at this footnote.

Although tolerated in days gone by in recent years, in 2009, the AFL branded this a dangerous type of tackle.

On November 4, 2007 the Patriots defeated the Colts 24 – 20 ; in the next matchup on November 2, 2008, the Colts won 18 – 15 in a game that was one of the reasons the Patriots failed to make the playoffs ; in the 2009 meeting, the Colts staged a spirited comeback to beat the Patriots 35 – 34 ; in the most recent 2010 game, the Colts almost staged another comeback, pulling within 31 – 28 after trailing 31 – 14 in the fourth quarter, but fell short due to a Patriots interception of a Manning pass late in the game.

A recent review by Greenberg ( 2009 ) discusses the " limitations in the beta-amyloid-mediated theory of IBM myofiber injury ,"

Sue Brown's recent biography ( 2009 ) uses this new information to provide a reassessment of Severn's character, his friendship with Keats, and his own subsequent artistic and diplomatic career.

Some recent articles appeared during the Champlain Quadricentennial ( 2009 ) claiming Ondakina as the “ local ” native name for the lake, but none cites a verifiable source.

The Lake Eyre Yacht Club is a dedicated group of sailors who sail on the lake's floods, including recent trips in 1997, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2009.

More recent buildings like Frank Gehry's Stata Center ( 2004 ), Steven Holl's Simmons Hall ( 2002 ), Charles Correa's Building 46 ( 2005 ), Fumihiko Maki's Media Lab Extension ( 2009 ) stand out among the Boston area's classical architecture and serve as examples of contemporary campus " starchitecture ".

In more recent years, the Indonesian film industry has also become an international force in the genre, with the Iko Uwais starring films Merantau ( 2009 ) and The Raid: Redemption ( 2011 ).

The Saints and the Vikings have played each other three times in the postseason, with the most recent being the 2009 NFC Championship Game.

Spring and fall are generally warm but prone to severe thunderstorms, which occasionally bring tornadoes — with recent major events on April 16, 1998 ; April 7, 2006 ; February 5, 2008 ; April 10, 2009 ; and May 1 – 2, 2010.

The most recent prohibition act, passed in March 2009, by the AK Parti, effectively banned polygamists from entering or living in the country.

More recent pandemics include the HIV pandemic and the H1N1 pandemics of 1918 and 2009.