According to Barker, the neighborhood had above-average rainfall over the winter and into spring.

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For winter and into spring, designers have harnessed the fearless fun of the party suit once more, with matching trouser-and-jacket combinations in flower prints, metallics and saturated colors.

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The seasonal increase results from tons of carbon dioxide, which had been frozen into a southern winter ice cap, returning into the atmosphere as southern spring turns to summer.

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Cloaked by the darkness of winter, the hurricane's eye became visible as Saturn's northern hemisphere transitioned into spring.

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Although the seasonal equinoxes and solstices seem to divide the year into four equal parts, when you count the days of what we officially call winter, spring, summer and fall, each season is different, says Bing Quock, acting chairman of the Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences.

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