Those first black, wet days, winter rain fell on the stones inside her, and when she left Turov, everything froze.
The vegetation is brown, instead of green from winter rain, he said.
Usually, he went from one end of the serpentine back garden to the other, but a few days after Husna began her lessons a winter rain wet the grass.
Kern County, for one, had seen its population swell by more than 60 percent in the last five years, and although health officers had cleaned up the squatter camps that once plagued the area, many migrants were still living in slums with inadequate sewers and drains, ramshackle houses, and litter-strewn dirt roads that would turn to mud after a hard winter rain.
But he is approaching a winter storm that includes rain, showers, thunderstorms, thunderheads, snow and possible icing that makes changing course not only desirable, but advisable.
On a recent Saturday morning, winter sun battled fitful rain.
After several years of drought, there was more rain this past winter.
Now they face the punishment of winter: winds, cold, rain and snow.
Since no dinosaur fossils have ever been found in sediments dating from after this point, conventional wisdom has it that the largest creatures ever to roam the earth must have been cut down in their prime - victims of an asteroid impact that sparked firestorms, acid rain and a nuclear winter that blotted out the sun.
The National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia, or Fedecafe, isn't giving a firm forecast for next year's crop, saying estimates are hard to make given the large amount of rain that came down this winter.
England's final match of their winter tour has been abandoned due to heavy rain in Harare.
Better to watch the rain fall in the branches of winter trees.
Mr Hawkins added flood defences installed a decade ago had worked until this winter - and the firm was now expecting more rain.
New York has experienced only 2.06 inches of rain the past 20 days after a winter that set records for snow, which funneled water to tree roots.
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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The winter system will reach the nation's capital Wednesday, bringing either rain or snow to the area before rolling off shore.
The situation for sheep farmers has been made worse because 2012 was also a bad year due to heavy rain and floods - and then the start of this long winter.
He said a "lucky window" of four days in May when dry weather had allowed him to fill his barn with silage for the winter, whereas his neighbouring farmer had suffered six weeks of "relentless" rain.
It is feared the hurricane could combine with a winter storm crossing from the west - intensifying its power and lashing the region with violent winds, rain and snow.
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