There was no moon, and under the low cloud cover a brisk unseasonable wind ruffled the old Norwegian maples that lined the street and dropped a fine rain of spring buds on my shoulders and in my hair.
Then came Spring and with it rain, cold, tornadoes, bad jobs reports and rising prices on everything from gas to milk and butter.
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Wine character fluctuates with each vintage dependent on how cool or how warm it got, the amount of rain in the spring and fall, the wind and even the bird population.
Even though several days of cold, wind and rain gave way to warmer spring temperatures at Phillip Island, the Spaniard was feeling under the weather, struggling to the sixth fastest lap time.
Farther east and south, more typical spring storms -- meaning possible severe thunderstorms with hail, heavy rain and gusty winds -- were expected to visit the southern Plains and Mississippi River Valley by Wednesday evening.
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Ideally, bats need a warm spring followed by a summer without heavy rain and high winds and a steady cold winter so they remain in hibernation.
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Convertible pieces have been a trademark of sorts for the designer: In the past, he's devised a reversible satin-lapelled tuxedo that's also a navy suit, and among next spring's offerings is a linen blazer whose other side is a nylon rain slicker.
Ideally each vineyard would gather the ingredients for its Steiner preparations from its own soil. (Though it's probably rare that they can manage this 100 percent in practice--most wineries, for one thing, don't have their own cow herds.) There is, for example, the "501, " which specifies ground quartz mixed with rain water, packed into a cow's horn buried in spring and dug up in autumn.
The valley seemed barren now, he said, but in the spring, after a dusting of rain, it would be bright with cactus blossoms and yellow creosote.
To avoid the rain: in most of the Northeast, Midwest, and Plains, it rains less in the spring than in the height of summer, but in many Southern states, it rains less in the summer than in the spring.
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