However, a cool spring and summer has increased grapes' natural acidity.

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The cool, wet spring in the Midwest delayed planting of the corn and soybean crops and that means pollination of these two crops is happening later in the summer.

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This spring, nothing can cool Gonzalez's bat.

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The closest spring to town is Ain al-Arais, a cool, inviting waterhole with a grotto-like bottom, just five minutes' walk from the central market.

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Each spring, nature deals parts of the rural North a cool blow.

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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.

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This spring's tornado season got a late start, with unusually cool weather keeping funnel clouds at bay until mid-May.

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