As a result, an unusual cooling may occur in the eastern equatorial Atlantic in spring and summer following El Niño peaks in winter.

Snowfall is normally light and blows away quickly during the winter, so to see this much snow on the ground at once is rather unusual.

Snowfalls can often be heavy, but rain is as common as snow in winter, and it is not unusual for the ground to be snow-free even in mid-winter.

Because of this combination of high mountains and Mediterreanean air, it is not unusual that the region frequently has some of the lowest winter temperatures and some of the hottest summer temperatures in France.

Summers are hot in the plains and winters mild to cool, getting colder in the Tramuntana range ; in this part of the island brief episodes of snow during the winter are not unusual.

Although severe weather is unusual and generally forecast, it has claimed several lives over the years, including a party of five soldiers and one naval rating, caught in a week long storm while undergoing winter survival training in 1990.

" Among the more unusual tributes, a Cabernet Sauvignon wine and a variety of winter wheat have been named in Nijinsky's honour.

In winter it is not unusual for the temperature to drop into the 50's F.

In the winter, it is not unusual for it to be sunny with the temperature in the forties in the county's eastern section, while at the same time it is snowing or sleeting with the temperature in the low thirties or even twenties in the county's mountainous north, west, and south.

Bloomington has an unusual amount of humidity throughout the year, even in the winter.

It is not unusual for summer daytime temperatures to reach in the mid to upper 90s and occasionally exceed 100 degrees F. It is typical for winter temperatures to fall into the teens at night, but temperatures generally warm to above freezing during the day.

The winters often fall below freezing for extended periods, however snow remains unusual due to very little precipitation forming in the winter months.

An unusual snowy winter day in Newcastle

Vaccinium vitis-idaea keeps its leaves all winter even in the coldest years, unusual for a broad-leaved plant, though in its natural habitat it is usually protected from severe cold by snow cover.

The undergraduate calendar is an unusual three-term system with 12-week fall and winter terms followed by a four-week spring term.

* In August 2009, Argentina experienced a period of unusual and exceptionally hot weather during August 24 – 30, during the Southern Hemisphere winter, just a month before Spring, when an unusual and unrecorded winter heat wave hit the country.

It is not unusual for small sections of the Parkway to be temporarily closed to repair damage caused by the cold winter climate of the mountains or for other maintenance.

Winter frosts are common on the Northern Tablelands and winter snow is not unusual in this area.

An unusual characteristic of this species is its communal roosting in thickets during the winter months.

The Regent Honeyeater exhibits unusual behaviour, in that particularly during winter, isolated individuals of this species associate with and then often mimic the calls of wattlebirds and friarbirds.

But because AT & T Park, like its predecessor, is built right on San Francisco Bay, cold summer fog and winter jackets in July are still not unusual at Giants games, despite the higher average temperature.

In 1815 he gave his support to Joachim Murat and his Neapolitan anti-Austrian expedition: after the latter's fall, he escaped to France, and then proceeded to Geneva, where he began teaching a course of jurisprudence applied to Roman law, the success of which gained him the unusual honour of naturalization as a citizen of Geneva.

* 1798 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile ( Battle of Aboukir Bay ) – Battle begins when a British fleet engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action.

At very low temperatures in the vicinity of absolute zero, matter exhibits many unusual properties, including superconductivity, superfluidity, and Bose – Einstein condensation.

The discovery image gave the first hint that comet Shoemaker – Levy 9 was an unusual comet, as it appeared to show multiple nuclei in an elongated region about 50 arcseconds long and 10 arcseconds wide.

The American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ) was unusual for at least two reasons: it was fought around regional identities, rather than political ideologies, and it was ended through a war of attrition, rather than over a decisive battle over control of the capital, as was the norm.

The period 1990 – 1994 was unusual in that El Niños have rarely occurred in such rapid succession.

* A. J. Burnett ( 1999 – 2005 ) — In 2001, Burnett pitched an unusual no-hitter where he walked nine batters.

These specifications mostly occur in non-European contexts – such as the coat of arms of Nunavut and the former Republic of Bophuthatswana, with the arms of North Dakota ( as distinguished from its seal ) providing an even more unusual example, while the State of Connecticut specifies a " rococo " shield – but not completely, as the Scottish Public Register records an escutcheon of oval form for the Lanarkshire Master Plumbers ' and Domestic Engineers ' ( Employers ') Association, and a shield of square form for the Anglo Leasing organisation.

* 1972 – The U. S. Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

Lomography ’ s website showcases many high-contrast photographs – with unusual saturation and color – that were created using the technique called cross processing in which film intended for developing in slide chemistry ( E-6 ) is processed in photographic negative chemistry ( C-41 ), and vice versa.

They mate for an extended period of time ( 20 – 45 minutes ), also unusual in a large animal.

* 1997 – The unusual 1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak Jarrell, Texas

Wilson Observatory: A small room dedicated to unusual letters and theories received by the Mount Wilson Observatory circa 1915 – 1935.

* The flag of Afghanistan and the flag of Ecuador, as well as the flag of the Ethiopian Empire ( 1137 – 1974 ), are unusual in that their designs contain representations of themselves.

Only proline differs from this basic structure as it contains an unusual ring to the N-end amine group, which forces the CO – NH amide moiety into a fixed conformation.

An unusual feature of the water phase diagram is that the solid – liquid phase line ( illustrated by the dotted green line ) has a negative slope.

Another interesting though not unusual feature of the phase diagram is the point where the solid – liquid phase line meets the liquid – gas phase line.

Its program in the sciences is likewise unusual – Reed's TRIGA research reactor makes it the only school in the United States to have a nuclear reactor operated entirely by undergraduates.

Nonetheless, equipped with the necessary theoretical tools, Prokofiev started experimenting with dissonant harmonies and unusual time signatures in a series of short piano pieces which he called " ditties " ( after the so-called " song form " – more accurately ternary form – they were based on ), laying the basis for his own musical style.

The final out of the final game of the 2006 regular season – confirming the Padres as Division champions – was a highly unusual play.