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.

Such marchin' in wholesale numbers was called a `` drift '', or `` winter drift '', and if the storm was prolonged it usually resulted in one of the tragedies of the range.

Drifts usually occurred in winter in an effort to escape the severe cold winds, but it could also occur in summer as the result of lack of water or grass because of a drought, or as an aftermath of a stampede.

Winter annuals typically grow low to the ground, where they are usually sheltered from the coldest nights by snow cover, and make use of warm periods in winter for growth when the snow melts.

In the spring, this is not usually a problem as vegetation is still moist from winter rains, but extreme dryness prevails by the fall, creating a danger of wildfires.

Deserts usually have a large diurnal and seasonal temperature range, with high or low, depending on location daytime temperatures ( in summer up to, and low nighttime temperatures ( in winter down to due to extremely low humidity.

This includes blankets, which is also a local necessity for the desert is not just a land of dust and heat, but winter nights here are very cold, usually below freezing points.

The winter of 1916 – 1917 was known as the " turnip winter ," because that vegetable, usually fed to livestock, was used by people as a substitute for potatoes and meat, which were increasingly scarce.

* Spring lambs, born in late winter or early spring, are usually sold before July 1.

The winter service dress uniform, of olive drab wool, consisted of a single-breasted coat having patch pockets with flaps, a khaki shirt and tie, and trousers that were usually cuffless.

The Khitan, however, had two scripts of their own and many Mongolic words are found in their half-deciphered writings that are usually found with a parallel Chinese text ( for example, nair = sun, sair = moon, tau = five, jau = hundred, m. r = horse, im. a = goat, n. q = dog, m. ng = silver, ju. un = summer, n. am. ur = autumn, u. ul = winter, heu. ur = spring, tau. l. a = rabbit, t. q. a = hen and m. g. o = snake ).

The lakes and rivers freeze over in the winter and are usually open between May and September.

Throughout the winter, it serves as the home of Australian rules football, with at least one game ( though usually more ) held there each round.

In the winter the weather patterns alter each year ; usually winters are mildly cold with temperatures ranging from-7 ° C ( 19. 4 ° F ) to 4 ° C ( 39. 2 ° F ), but the winter season changes often to a more humid and warmer winter, or more continental and cold.

In the winter months, snowfall does occur in Nashville but is usually not heavy.

Chaco temperatures are usually high, the averages dropping only slightly in winter.

Rainfall is negligible, averaging per year, confined to the winter months, and falling in brief, sometimes heavy storms that often flood the small ravines and the usually dry wadis.

Throughout much of the territory there are only two distinct seasons — winter and summer ; spring and autumn are usually brief periods of change between extremely low temperatures and extremely high.

Dried pinto beans are a major staple food during the winter months, used to make the ubiquitous ham-flavored bean soup usually called soup beans.

Held every year, usually in March or April at the end of the winter track season.

During the winter or dry season, extending roughly from November to April, the monsoon winds usually blow from the northeast along the China coast and across the Gulf of Tonkin, picking up considerable moisture ; consequently the winter season in most parts of the country is dry only by comparison with the rainy or summer season.

In contrast, the winter months — November to April — bring moderately cool and sometimes cold weather, averaging about.

It is moderately cold in the winter with varied snowfall throughout.

With an elevation of 1, 400 feet, Marion's climate is fairly warm during summer, when temperatures tend to be in the 80s and 90s, and moderately cold during the winter, with temperatures typically in the 30s and 40s.

The temperate species, which form hibernacula in the winter, are examples of such adaptation to habitats ; in general, sundews tend to inhabit warm climates, and are only moderately frost-resistant.

Summer is short and moderately warm, whereas winter is long and uneven, with frequent thaws.

Climatic areas with the highest mean densities were found to have been " A warm and dry district with mild winter and longer duration of sunshine ; a warm and dry district with mild winter and shorter duration of sunshine ; a warm and moderately dry district with mild winter ".

Alessandria is located in a Humid subtropical climate zone ( Köppen climate classification Cfa ), the city has moderately cold winter and very hot summer.

The climate in Covilhã is temperate, moderately cold in the winter and relatively warm in the summer.

The north face of the mountain, however, is much steeper, and offers several routes involving moderately steep climbing on snow and ice ( up to French grade AD ) in the winter.

Summer is short and moderately warm, whereas winter is long and uneven, with frequent thaws.

Cheonan experiences a 4 season weather cycle, with moderately high summer temperatures and moderately low temperatures and snowfall in winter.

The summers are usually moderately warm, while snow is common throughout most of the kingdom in the winter.

The corms are dried and stored for the winter when temperatures fall to 65 ° F ( 18 ° C ), and stored moderately dry ( not bone-dry ) over the winter at temperatures between 56 ° F ( 13 ° C ) and 61 ° F ( 16 ° C ).

Kriva Palanka has a temperate continental climate with moderately cold winter, moderately warm summer, spring, fresh and relatively warm autumn, due to geographical and disposition of certain influences that enter the Aegean Sea via Kriva Reka.