Currently it is northern winter on Vesta, and the northern polar region is in perpetual darkness.
For their big mid-winter party, they broke out that tender free-range lamb smoked over a dung fire to mark the halfway point in a long far northern winter.
By then more at ease with the northern winter, Mr Ondaatje was picked for the bobsleigh team that brought back Canada's only gold medal from the 1964 winter Olympics in Innsbruck.
It is the first time it has been confirmed where the animals travel to for the northern hemisphere winter.
Every season, the Bundesliga takes a monthlong break right in the middle of the harsh Northern European winter, from just before Christmas to late January.
In the northern hemisphere, every winter the concentration of carbon dioxide increases and every summer it decreases.
However in winter the Northern Hemisphere is tilted away from the Sun giving us shorter days and cooler weather.
But there is good reason to think that the market has not yet peaked: the northern hemisphere's winter is only now approaching, heating oil stocks are at extremely low levels on both sides of the Atlantic, and the price of natural gas (oil's chief rival for home heating) has lately gone through the roof.
Not a single Syrian refugee child we met in northern Lebanon was dressed for winter.
One winter day in northern Quebec some years ago, a polar bear wandered into a village and approached a seven-year-old Inuit child.
That is where the newest varieties of apples, pears, stone fruit and table grapes grow in months that are winter in the northern hemisphere.
In the mid-winter grayness of northern Europe not a trace of red or blue anywhere the light seems to have gone out, but at least one soul remains incandescent.
And it turns out that when the Earth is close to and zipping by the sun, when we are moving fastest in our annual orbit, that's the time of year we in the Northern Hemisphere call fall and winter.
The second one, which begins in the mid-1970s, is much more suspicious because it has been accompanied by a cooling of the stratosphere and is accentuated at high latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere and in the winter, which is what one would expect from increasing CO2.
The wet weather is predicted to trigger winter storms in the northern plains states.
Mild winter weather in the northern U.S. is not helping.
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He was in a coma and receiving treatment Friday at a hospital in Jammu, the winter capital of the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, according to Mr. Sehgal.
After a 30-year winter of sectarian violence, Northern Ireland today has the (AUDIO GAP) of a springtime of peace.
To make matters worse, the northern Mississippi freezes on and off during winter months and is reliably unreliable for several months of the year.
They asked Gordon Brown, the prime minister, to pay for winter-fuel grants for Northern Ireland's pensioners, and for water services so that they can postpone the introduction of water rates.
The coldest weather so far this winter is creeping over the northern United States this week, the National Weather Service said , sending the temperature plunging below zero in Chicago for the first time in 711 days.
The Hajj season -- dates vary depending on the sighting of the new moon -- peaks between Wednesday and Saturday this year, just as the winter flu season gets underway in the Northern hemisphere.
Late-winter snow also socked other parts of the northern U.S., which as much as 2 feet forecast in parts of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
In winter, experts say, people in the northern half of the U.S. don't receive enough UVB rays from the sun to make vitamin D, regardless of whether they use sunscreen.
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Though the areas around and south of Phoenix do enjoy t-shirt weather this time of year, winter really makes itself known in the more northern quarters, and of course, at the higher elevations.
The exhibition will be at the Sheffield's Winter Garden until it moves back to the Northern General Hospital Clock Tower Gallery in January 2011, where the whole collection of 300-400 printed photographs will be on show.
But it could simply mean that the Games move to northern venues, like Norway, where global warming has increased winter precipitation and where glaciers are growing - even if the winters are still getting shorter.
There are signs of thaw from this bleak economic winter, especially in the US, and even in northern Europe.
The Northern Hemisphere is finally beginning to wake up from a long, cold winter, and green vehicles are taking to the skies.
Often described as "winter blues", Rosenthal found the condition was more prevalent in northern latitudes: virtually no-one in sunny Florida was diagnosed with the condition while almost one in 10 of the population further north in New Hampshire was said to suffer from SAD.
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