Sentences with phrase «winter of long periods»

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After a long day in the office, a Winter's walk in the cold, decorating the Christmas, an eventful day of present shopping and the many other things we are busying ourselves with over the festive period, I do believe there is nothing quite better than sitting down with a mug of tea and a piece of fruit cake.

The result is down from the $ 4.9 million delivered in the previous corresponding period, but this was due to a longer growing season in which the 2016 winter crop harvest was extended into January this year resulting in some of the profit being held over until the second half of the financial year.

He said farmers have just gone through a long, cold and wet winter — only to experience an extremely late spring and «the most severe» snow storm in a generation right in the middle of the 2018 calving period.

«We found compelling evidence that invasive shrubs, such as Japanese barberry, are ready to leaf out quickly once they are exposed to warm temperatures in the lab even in the middle of winter, whereas native shrubs, like highbush bluberry, and native trees, like red maple, need to go through a longer winter chilling period before they can leaf out — and even then their response is slow,» says Amanda Gallinat, a second - year graduate student and third author of the paper.

The presence of anchovy larvae through almost the entire year indicates the species was spawning nearly continuously through the winter, far longer than its usual summer spawning period in the region, researchers found.

While a mountain lion can become hungry at any time of the year, the animals would go longer and longer periods of time between making kills as the winter progressed through late spring, a time of the year when wild prey numbers are lowest.

Winter storms, and soggy summers, may be the new future of England all during the long period of climate disruption.

For significant periods of time, the reconstructed large - scale changes in the North Pacific SLP field described here and by construction the long - term decline in Hawaiian winter rainfall are broadly consistent with long - term changes in tropical Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) based on ENSO reconstructions documented in several other studies, particularly over the last two centuries.

While hardy winter squash can be picked and stored for long periods of time, their delicate summer cousins are at their best immediately after they're harvested.

Dark comes much earlier in the winter because winter is the time for longer periods of rest.

After a long winter of craving carb - heavy comfort foods and sugar - laden goodies, it's sometimes nice to dedicate a period of time to eating «clean.»

As skin tans, longer periods of sun exposure will be needed to build vitamin D stores for the winter months.

In fact the pumpkin is an indigenous Native American plant that sustained many folk through the cold months of winter due to its hardy skin and its ability to be stored for long periods of time.

The hunter - gatherer societies couldn't always find food, in the winter, and fairly long periods without food were common in many parts of history.

Effectively, a healthy body (that is in tune with its long - term cycles of activity) relates to the year as it does to training: there is a period of warm - up (spring), exercise (summer), cool - down (fall), and recovery (winter).

So can be worn for a long period of a year.You can use with a variety of winter jackets, a lot of types of pants from elegant one to the casual one.

I wear leggings, in MN the winters are brutally cold and from time to time I have to spend long periods of time in barns / stables, I wear the leggings UNDER my pants.

Despite a period of record low temperatures this winter, it wasn't long enough to decrease tick populations.

However cats and dogs that do spend long periods of time outdoors during winter may require additional food.

Port Douglas is popular for both holiday villa rentals and holiday home rentals over the southern Australia winter periods as guests love to escape the cold and winter and bask in the Tropical North Queensland sunshine and we can now offer them some longer term accommodation rates to suit their requirements in our large range of holiday vacation properties.

In winter, the low pressures in the north Atlantic generate long period groundswells that travel 1000s of miles to hit the coast of Morocco and produce the hollow barrels the area is famous for.

The Po Plain has harsh winters with long periods of subfreezing temperatures and warm sultry summers, with rainfall more common in winter.

Use a clothes line: The sun and wind are very effective at drying clothes throughout the year (it even works in the winter, unless we hit long periods of below - freezing temperatures or snow and rain), and when drying clothes outside wasn't an option, we used clothes racks to dry them inside.

Germany also must deal with a huge temporal power surplus, extremely large load gradients, and long «calms» — periods of low wind, typically experienced in the winter.

Years 1900 - 1930 were the coolest long period with average of about 4.5 C, 1931 - 39 were warmer (about 6.0 C, and 1938 warmest in record in many parts of Finland), but 1940 - 41 were exceptionally cold helping Finland in defending against Russian invasion in «Winter War».

The report suggests that warmer, wetter winters brought on by changing weather patterns a.k.a. climate change have led to higher levels of pollen in the air lingering for longer periods of time.

A new long - range forecast shows that all of California can expect wetter - than - normal conditions in the January through March period, the heart of winter.

For longer time periods appropriate to the assessment of trends, however, global temperatures have experienced significant warming for all seasons except winter, when cooling trends exist instead across large stretches of eastern North America and northern Eurasia.

Climate in general is defined as the average of the weather over some sufficiently long period of time... and that's not this winter's weather.

Do you think you can convince me that we aren't in a interglacial period that is getting a bit long in tooth, that the Milankovitch cycle that helps the glaciers grow by making northern hemisphere winters warmer and summers cooler isn't moving in the direction favorable to glaciation, and that the next once - per - thousand year volcanic eruption won't happen in this century, and it won't be the straw that breaks the camel's back by lowering the earth's temperature a couple degrees for a few years to mark the end of the Holocene?

Over longer periods of time, however, it becomes increasingly unlikely that the Triple R could have persisted as a cohesive feature over two consecutive winter seasons by random chance alone, which supports the notion that highly unusual ocean temperatures played a fundamental role.

This suggests that colder winter temperatures over the NH continents during portions of the 15th through the 17th centuries (sometimes called the Little Ice Age) and warmer temperatures during the 12th through 14th centuries (the putative Medieval Warm Period) may have been influenced by long term solar variations.»

There were arctic winters, blazing summers, serious droughts, torrential rain years, often bountiful harvests and long periods of mild winters and warm summers.

In fact, the period of 1997/98 -2006 / 07, with the exception of 2000/01, were historically warmer than normal (the most warm winters in a row by a long shot with data going back to 1820 in Minneapolis).

: This means there's a chance of winter storm conditions and hazards across a relatively large geographical area, like New England, and for a relatively long time period (i.e. a few days).