The time when we all doubt it, with winter winds and icy streets and nude branches entrapping us in a snow globe.
The former, the simple-lifers, arrive in summer with high ideals, but soon discover the delights of social security when winter winds blow their crops away.
Now they face the punishment of winter: winds, cold, rain and snow.
Though the field sits in shallow water, this part of the Caspian freezes over in winter and fierce winds blow chunks of ice into the islands that the consortium has built to develop the field.
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The most unpleasant weather occurs in winter, when easterly winds from Russia may bring very low temperatures for several days on end.
Soon the winds would bring the winter - time to sell each mouse, each printer.
Winter storms producing near-hurricane strength winds forced the vessel and its crew to take refuge in Mooloolaba, Queensland on Monday.
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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 women's downhill skiing event at the Winter Olympics has been postponed because of strong winds in Salt Lake City.
This tracks the difference in air pressure between Iceland and the Azores and, during the winter months, determines the strength of the winds, temperatures and rainfall in the St Kilda archipelago.
Under freezing winter conditions the output can be miniscule because very cold weather and high winds require turbines to be shut down to avoid damage.
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.
Strong winds also did damage in Colorado, the Associated Press reported, where a quick-moving winter storm brought up to a foot of snow in some spots and scattered reports of damage.
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