Outside a crisp winter sun reflects on Plymouth Sound, a stunning amphitheatre of cliffs overlooking the sea.
On a recent Saturday morning, winter sun battled fitful rain.
And, of course, there were the girls dressed in honour of St Lucia, who is the patron saint of light and vision and is thus much celebrated in a place where the winter sun barely rises above the horizon.
San'ya has aged with its residents, old men with creased faces and missing teeth who squat and smoke on the pavements, drift from bar to bar, or sleep it off in the winter sun on cardboard and plastic matting.
Arctic sea ice cover grows each winter as the sun sets for several months, and shrinks each summer as the sun rises higher in the northern sky.
The wind in California tends to blow the strongest at night and in the winter while the sun obviously is at its strongest during the day and in the summer months.
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And the hotel has a pool, as rare in Milan as the sun in winter.
In winter, when the sun is only an occasional visitor, the town squares are strung with lights and ice skating rinks are full.
Vitamin D researchers estimate that up to half of Americans might be getting inadequate amounts, especially in the winter months when the sun is low.
In the winter, when the sun is in the south, it shines on the entrance and heats things up in the summer, the sun moves to the north and the cave entrance is in the shade, keeping things inside cool.
Some people may wonder why we in the Northern Hemisphere have our spring and summer when our planet is far away from the sun. (Equally confusing: our fall and winter come when we are near to the sun.) Shouldn't proximity to that nice warm ball of sunshine predict our seasons?
"The forecast for this winter is a continued quiet sun, in general, " he said.
In December, Saint Andrew's Day is another chance for some quality palm reading while saying goodbye to the sun for the winter.
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 picture below is a snapshot of the sun caught during the winter (or, depending where you are, summer) solstice.
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When winter comes to the Finnish north, the sun disappears until the spring.
Overnight camping at Caracol will be allowed for the first time, allowing winter solstice campers the chance to witness the sun rise on a new B'ak'tun (or cycle) from a very historical spot.
The warmth in the Arctic that this arrangement has brought may diminish the regeneration of sea ice over the course of this winter, meaning that next summer's sun can push back the boundaries further.
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This shut out the sun, causing decades of continuous winter sufficient to trigger an advance of ice sheets that, even when the dust cleared, kept the climate cool for more than a thousand years, at least in the Northern Hemisphere.
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However in winter the Northern Hemisphere is tilted away from the Sun giving us shorter days and cooler weather.
Spirit was supposed to park on a nearby hill for the winter so its solar panels would point more directly toward the sun.
Mr. JOHN GRAHAM (Smithsonian Air and Space Museum): And we're on a very tight time line, and the reason for that is we need to get to the base of the next hill to the south, which has got north-facing slopes, so that we can get up and basically repeat what we did last winter on Husband Hill: turn the solar panels towards the sun and survive.
Young and old, men and women worked from sun up to sun down, through the summer heat and bitterly cold winter.
"When she left hospital, I asked the army if I could take her home to convalesce because her diabetes was so serious, but they said she had to go for winter training with the army team in northeastern China, " says Sun of her daughter.
Altered day-night cycle: the Antarctic winter involves a period of over three months of complete darkness where the sun does not rise above the horizon.
Over the winter, special triple-pane windows that capture 64% of the sun's warmth keep the house cozy even on 5-degree days so cozy that Mr. Konkol had lush indoor herbs, blooming orchids and a lemon tree.
'Through the winter we take kids out on seven-day trips, ' explains captain Chrissy Gayer, whose sun-bleached hair suggests a life lived permanently outdoors.
And the nuclear-winter hypothesis (that the smoke from fires caused by a global nuclear war would blot out the sun's rays and thus cool the earth catastrophically) owes its origin, at least in part, to observations of a planet-wide dust storm on Mars.
They used their knowledge of the astrological movement of the sun through the seasons to align their pueblos on south facing cliffs to receive direct heating sunlight in winter, yet be shaded in the summer.
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