Therefore, these mountains are a popular winter sports area, with resorts such as Zakopane, called also " winter capital of Poland ", Poprad and the town Vysoké Tatry ( The Town of High Tatras ) in Slovakia created in 1999, including former separate resorts: Štrbské Pleso, Starý Smokovec, and Tatranská Lomnica.

For example, Mount Baker recorded the largest single-season snowfall on record in the world in the winter of 1998 – 1999 with.

He and Mary remained together in Collioure until her death in 1998, but he continued to work on his naval novels, spending the winter of 1998 – 1999 at Trinity College, Dublin, which had awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1997.

Elias left ATR at the Brixton Academy show in the winter of 1999.

In the winter of 1998 – 99, Hole went on tour to promote Celebrity Skin, and made further appearances at festivals throughout 1999 after an extensive American and European tour.

The delays were due both to an embargo on road works for the total solar eclipse of 11 August 1999 which saw tourists flock to Cornwall, one of the few areas of the UK in the path of totality, and also due to extremely bad weather during the winter of 1999 / 2000.

It was a reflection of the war in Kosovo in winter 1999.

During the initial campaign, Russian military and pro-Russian Chechen paramilitary forces faced Chechen separatists in open combat, and seized the Chechen capital Grozny after a winter siege that lasted from late 1999 to the following February 2000.

The project was initiated by Flemming Frandsen in winter 1999 after he had stumbled across Liero, which he liked so much that he decided to reimplement it under Linux.

Canadian rules were further tightened in British Columbia in 2000 after a producer dealt with the mild winter of 1999 by moving grapes up to the mountains to seek freezing temperatures.

By the age of twenty, he had won the British Formula Renault winter series of 1999, winning the first four races of the year.

Efteling used to be closed all winter ( only being open from April through October ), but the park's management, struggling to make the park more profitable and creating a better return-on-investment, has been experimenting with a so-called " Winter Efteling " since 1999 ( see index below for attractions closed during " Winter Efteling " 15px ).

* 1999 Kargil Conflict: Pakistani army troops invaded high peaks in Kargil sector in Jammu & Kashmir during the winter when high mountain posts were unoccupied.

During offseasons, she interned with the Sting's front office, worked with US Sport Management, Inc., played a second winter season in Italy in 1999 – 2000, and served as an assistant women's basketball coach at UNC for several seasons.

* Nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of Best Instrumental Soloist Performance for ' The long, long winter night ' ( USA, 1999 )

NOLS Teton Valley, founded in 1999, specializes in winter courses and courses combining backpacking and rafting.

After a Kosovo war ended in 1998, Adria was the first airline fly to Pristina at winter period in 1999.

& Fuller, R. A. ( 1999 ) Sex differences in winter distribution of Long-eared Owls ( Asio otus ) in Demark and neighbouring countries.

Until winter 1999 services was operated by Flightline, using a single BAe 146-300.

Its winter range extends south and east from Sinaloa to Oaxaca ( Jaramillo and Burke 1999 ).

This species is phylogeneticagy included within the group of Serinus syriacus now thriving around the Mt Lebanon and other Asian and African patches in winter, together with Serinus canicollis ( African distribution ) and Serinus alario ( southern Africa tip distribution ) Arnaiz-Villena et al, 1999

In the late winter of 1999, North Ward received a bomb threat, as did a number of other schools in the area, including Paris District High School.

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.

Many of the roads also were hit by an unusually severe winter.

Their coat of fur also changes color when summer arrives, but in winter it is white.

There was an artificial platform there and this apparent verification of Thom's long alignment hypothesis ( Kintraw was diagnosed as an accurate winter solstice site ) led him to check Thom's geometrical theories at the Cultoon stone circle in Islay, also with a positive result.

Most bokbiers tend to be seasonal beers ( traditionally autumn, although there are currently also spring, summer and winter boks ).

But finding the sea guarded by a squadron of Octavian's ships, he retired to winter at Patrae while his fleet for the most part lay in the Ambracian Gulf, and his land forces encamped near the promontory of Actium, while the opposite side of the narrow strait into the Ambracian Gulf was also protected by a tower and a body of troops.

The sun's most southerly position, which is attained at the northern hemisphere's winter solstice, is now called the Tropic of Capricorn, a term which also applies to the line on the Earth at which the sun is directly overhead at noon on that solstice.

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.

The southern end is also shallow and often freezes during the winter.

It is also visible near the horizon from tropical latitudes of the northern hemisphere for a few hours every night during the northern winter and spring.

The lake also provides another positive effect, moderating Chicago's climate ; making waterfront neighborhoods slightly warmer in winter and cooler in summer.

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.

December was also the tenth month in the Roman calendar until a monthless winter period was divided between January and February.

The College also maintains the Dartmouth Skiway, a skiing facility located over two mountains near the Hanover campus in Lyme Center, New Hampshire that serves as the winter practice grounds for the nationally dominant Dartmouth ski team.

But she was also a hit with the critics ; a winter 1949 poll of newspaper and magazine radio editors taken by Motion Picture Daily named her the year's best radio comedienne.

He was in Rome when it struck in 166 AD, and was also present in the winter of 168 – 69 during an outbreak among troops stationed at Aquileia.

The bill was large at long and curved downwards at the top ; the bill also had deep white grooves in both the upper and lower mandibles, up to seven on the upper mandible and twelve on the lower mandible in summer, though there were fewer in winter.

Gotenhafen was also used during winter 1944-45 to evacuate German troops and refugees trapped by the Red Army.

Some riders also like to use them in the winter to avoid putting a frozen metal bit into a horse's mouth.

* In Finland, the month of Tammikuu means the heart of the winter and because the name also means Oak, it can be inferred that the oak tree is the heart of grand forest with many valuable trees as opposed to the typical Arctic forests which are typically pine and spruce.

The same year that Booth's father married Holmes ( 1851 ), he built Tudor Hall on the Harford County property as the family's summer home, while also maintaining a winter residence on Exeter Street in Baltimore in the 1840s – 1850s.

The trees differ also from other citrus species in that they enter into a period of winter dormancy so profound that they will remain in it through several weeks of subsequent warm weather without putting out new shoots or blossoms.

The region can also fall victim to the sporadic ice storm during the winter months, such as the 2002 ice storm during which hundreds of thousands lost power for days and ( in some cases ) weeks.

Although the peak season at the lake is the summer, Balaton is also frequented during the winter, when visitors go ice-fishing or even skate, sledge, or ice-sail on the lake if it freezes over.

Winnipeg also has the second-clearest skies year-round and is the second-sunniest city in Canada in the spring and winter.