winter
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As the El Niño weather event in the Pacific Ocean continues to intensify it has been linked to wetter and stormier weather in the UK during late autumn and early winter.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
Two years ago, he was at his winter home in Sanford, Fla., when he got a door alert from the Samsung refrigerator in his house in Cape May.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
"We have to use this time to get things done... we're pruning the rose bushes for winter," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
With the winter meetings in December expected to be canceled because of a lockout, GM meetings likely will be the one time for baseball operations leaders to all gather under the same roof this offseason.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
They were a rare and beautiful breed—their fur pale gray, their eyes the blue of a winter sky.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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The winter of 2025 to 2026 ranked among Switzerland's ten least snowy winters since records began, leaving glaciers with less snow to protect them from warmer temperatures.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
The skiing: Taos typically receives less snowfall than many other Western ski destinations, but El Niño winters have historically favored above-average snowfall there, said Smith.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
But El Niño winters generally bring even stronger waves, resulting in more sand loss and erosion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
More frequent and intense weather extremes are expected as a result of climate change, with Wales facing the prospect of wetter, wilder winters more often.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
After four punishing wartime winters, the stranglehold of the Allied blockade was causing increasing hardship in Germany and growing demands for peace.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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“A monarch that wintered in Monterey might end up in Las Vegas or Boise or Spokane that next spring and summer,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2023
In the classic migration pattern, flocks that wintered in the southern U.S. fly north in the spring, returning to the same spots in the high and sub-Arctic to breed and nest.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 16, 2020
The social pages followed his comings and goings, when he summered in Bar Harbor and wintered in Boca Raton.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 19, 2019
True to their name, they slept and wintered in caves, emerging each spring to blink awake in the Pleistocene sunlight.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2019
There rabbits and ptarmigan gathered to eat seeds out of the wind, and moose wintered on the twigs of the willows.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
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He said there were seasonal restrictions on areas with birthing seals and wintering birds.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
After spending the summer in the Hamptons, Icahn is wintering at his house on the Miami-area island known as Billionaire Bunker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025
"The two species do overlap on their high elevation wintering grounds. It's mind-boggling that until now nobody figured out the Giant Hummingbird mystery, yet these two species have been separate for millions of years. "
From Science Daily ● May 13, 2024
With fall underway in Antarctica, some bird species are starting to scatter to their wintering areas.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 18, 2024
She drew a map on the floor and showed him where the wintering grounds of the caribou lay.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
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