...Season From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For other uses, see Season (disambiguation). Part of the Nature series onWeather | | Calendar seasons | Spring · SummerAutumn · Winter | Tropical seasonsDry season · Wet season | Storms | Thunderstorm · Supercell Downburst · Lightning Tornado · Waterspout Tropical cyclone (Hurricane) Extratropical cyclone Winter storm · Blizzard · Ice storm Dust storm · Firestorm · Cloud | Precipitation | Drizzle · Rain · Snow · Graupel Freezing rain · Ice pellets · Hail | Topics | Meteorology · Climate Weather forecasting Heat wave · Air pollution Cold wave | Weather portal | * v t e | A season is a subdivision of the year, marked by changes in weather, ecology, and hours of daylight. Seasons result from the yearly revolution of the Earth around the Sun and the tilt of the Earth's axis relative to the plane of revolution.[1] In temperate and polar regions, the seasons are marked by changes in the intensity of sunlight that reaches the Earth's surface, variations of which may cause animals to go into hibernation or to migrate, and plants to be dormant. During May, June and July, the northern hemisphere is exposed to more direct sunlight because the hemisphere faces the sun. The same is true of the southern hemisphere in November, December and January. It is the tilt of the Earth that causes the Sun to be higher in the sky during the summer months which increases the solar flux. However...
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...A season is a division of the year, marked by changes in weather, ecology, and hours of daylight. Seasons result from the yearly revolution of the Earth around the Sun and the tilt of the Earth's axis relative to the plane of revolution. The seasons result from the Earth's axis being tilted to its orbital plane; it deviates by an angle of approximately 23.4 degrees. Thus, at any given time during summer or winter, one part of the planet is more directly exposed to the rays of the Sun. This exposure alternates as the Earth revolves in its orbit. Therefore, at any given time, regardless of season, the northern and southern hemispheres experience opposite seasons. The effect of axis tilt is observable from the change in day length, and altitude of the Sun at noon (the culmination of the Sun), during a year. Summer: Summer is the warmest of the four temperate seasons. Summer is the warmest season of the year when the sun shines directly on one half of the world. Usually, July and August are the hottest months of the summer season. Crops, trees, and other plants reach their full maturity in summer. Summer is traditionally associated with hot dry weather, but this does not occur in all regions. Summer is one of the seasons of a year which is the warmest. It falls between the seasons of spring and autumn. Summer is generally known to be the season which has the hottest and longest days in a year. The summer nights are usually smaller than those of winter. It is a very good season...
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...Samantha leupold AC0443329 Assignment 1 SC260 Ecology 1. Describe global patterns of atmospheric heating and circulation. What mechanisms produce high precipitation in the tropics? What mechanisms produce high precipitation at temperate latitudes? What mechanisms produce low precipitation in the tropics? 2. Use what you know about atmospheric circulation and seasonal changes in the sun’s orientation to earth to explain the highly seasonal rainfall in the tropical dry forest and tropical savanna biomes. (Hint: Why does the rainy season in these biomes come during the warmer months?) Heating of the earth surface and atmosphere and influences patterns of precipitation the sun heats the air at the equator causing it to expand and rise. This warm moist air cools as it rises. Since cool air holds less water vapor than warm air the water carried by the rising air mass condenses and forms clouds which produce the heavy rain fall associated with the tropical environment. Eventually this equatorial air mass ceases to rise and spreads north and south. The high altitude air is dry since the moisture it once held fell as a tropical rain fall. When the air mass flows north and south it cools which increases its density. It sinks back to the earth’s surface at about 30 latitude and spreads north and south. The air draws moisture from the lands over which it flows and creates deserts in the process. Temperature is plotted on the left vertical axis and precipitation on the...
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...September 2014 Winter vs. Summer Winter and summer have their own seasonal weather, activities, and attire. The main factor is temperature, the weather transition affects what activities people can do and what attire we have to wear in order to be comfortable. We can’t do all activities such as snowboarding or jet skiing all 365 days of the year, doing this in the wrong season would be uncomfortable and possibly unsafe. This is why our clothing must coordinate with the weather, if we wear the wrong clothing, our bodies can overheat or freeze in the wrong clothing. Both seasons have its own individual characteristics that change our environment, which then causes our choice of activity, attire, and our driving route to our destination to change in serveral ways. California doesn’t have incredibly high or low forecasts, but it can be hard to deal with in ways that affect our routes we take and timing to our destination. Why? The weather. On winter mornings, the gloomy, colder weather comes in causing drivers to spend time waiting for their windshield wipers and defrost system to melt the frozen ice. Specifically, the rainy, foggy weather can cause decreased vision making it difficult to drive. When it rains, people tend to drive even slower due to the slippery roads which then can pile up to a lot of traffic. The weather becomes a hassle to deal with as we try to drive safely and arrive quickly to our destination. Yet in the summer, people don’t have to worry about any of these obstacles...
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...Fall Boating in Florida Moving across the water on an open boat can deliver the chilliest kind of wind chill, but Floridians do not have to worry about that as much as our Northern friends and family, and we do not have to worry about it all just yet. Summer ended six weeks ago, yet temperatures in Central Florida remain in the high 80’s or even the low 90’s. Even when we have our two or three weeks of mildly chilly weather in January and February, we will not have to face the challenges of a northern winter. None of our waterways freeze over, and most weeks offer at least some opportunity to go fishing or cruising. In fact, fall offers many advantages for the Florida boater. Many avid anglers claim that there is no better time to go fishing....
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...SSC-101 Spring and fall not only demonstrates two different seasons but two different feelings and emotions. Spring is considered the season of happiness and love, whereas fall is considered as the season of sorrow and grief. Once it was Spring and fresh flowers covered the land, the odour from the flowers, the beauty of colors filled the city where Margaret lived. Everywhere in the nature became full of aroma of romance such as flowers started to bloom, trees started getting new leaves, sky became cloudless, rivers murmured mildly, etc. Young Margaret unaware about the hardships of the world loved the beauty and pleasant atmosphere around her. The fresh flowers, the scent of them in the air appealed to her innocent personality. Now it is Fall, the season when young leaves and flowers fall from the tree. Young Margaret is sorrowful for the flowers and leaves that no longer beautify the city. The scent of flowers, the pleasant atmosphere, the fresh air, the colourful view is all lost. Atmosphere of unpleasantness and sorrow embraces the city. The sunny weather of Fall has started to wipe off the footprints of the rainy season. The muddy paths are dried up. The bogs and swamps are no more seen. The marshy-land gets dried and ditches are dried too.. Water in ponds and rivers is no more muddy. Dry brittle leaves are falling, crackling under feet as one walk into the darkened forest. Although spring and fall are two seasons but Margaret being young, innocent and unaware about the...
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...I like summer the most. This may seem Stanger, but it is a fact for me. Let me first narrate the good and the bad sides of the seasons clearly. In summer, the heat becomes oppressive. It causes physical hardship that sometimes become unbearable. We feel easily tired. What with the heat and the sweat and the dust and the flies at times, it is positively maddening. On the other hand, the general health is usually good. The discomforts caused by cold season ailments of digestion, common in the rainy season, practically do not exist in this stern season. Further, the sultry and humid heat of noonday is usually compensated by the refreshing breeze that blows in at about evening. And then a thunder-shower or two brings down the temperature and gives us a pleasant respite. Summer has richer compensations that make it so dear to me. First, there is the mango, the world's wonder-fruit. Next, there is the joy of playing football, the world's most popular game. As soon as the sea-breeze begins to blow across the fields, out we go with our ball, and then there is a joy of having a refreshing bath that follows. It cools the body and soothes the mind. At what season, again, is the sweetness of an ice-cream or a cold drink so deliciously inviting? At night we may sleep under the electric fan or the open sky, refreshed by the breeze. In summer, we can go up a hill-side station or down to a seaside resort and both are equally welcome. Above all, their is the charm of the long vacation...
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...Ha Dao Writing from Within Mr. Reynolds Summer reading in class essay 1) O’Brien tells numerous stories from his past with the common factor of war or loss of loved ones. In the beginning of the story, O’Brien explains all the physical objects that the men carried during the war. He then moves on to several war stories, describing his experiences in Vietnam. These chapters present other intangible things that these soldiers also carried- such as Lieutenant Jimmy Cross’s loneliness. In these first few chapters he also depicts the setting in Vietnam. In the fourth chapter, “On the Rainy River,” O’Brien gives readers a glimpse into his life before the war, and tells of his almost escape to Canada after being drafted. O’Brien then moves back into war stories telling of the man he killed to Henry Dobbins carrying pantyhose around his neck. These semi-true stories further illustrate the extra emotional baggage these soldiers carried. In the chapter “Speaking of Courage,” O’Brien tells a fictional story of Norman Bowker trying to communicate his post-war feelings, and in the next tribute explains his tribute to Norman Bowker (who committed suicide.) O’Brien then tells of his post war life and of his trip back to Vietnam with his own daughter. When O’Brien is finished with war anecdotes, he tells one final story of how when he was nine, the love of his life, Linda, passed away. This final story brings the book to end with O’Brien...
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...Fall - A Time Transition The fall season has many meanings for me. It is a time of transition that takes us from warm balmy days to the more harsh weather of winter. It's a time that takes us from the spectacle of nature in full bloom, to nature in hibernation. The signs of this transition are everywhere. The vivid colors of summer fade away, the color of the sky changes from deep blue to gray. The green fades from the grass and plants lose their blossoms. The leaves on the trees turn color, and lose their grip. Insects disappear. It's the tune of year that signifies the end of summer and vacations. No more picnics, swimming, baseball, tennis, and a myriad of other activities that most of us enjoy in the outdoors. It signals that during the next few months we will have to endure weather conditions that are not conducive to spending quality time outdoors enjoying nature. The knowledge of this seasonal period of transition awakens, in me, a more keen awareness of my surroundings than at any other time of year. The deeper appreciation comes from knowing that the good weather days are coming to an end. The fall season conjures up all sorts of analogies in my mind. For example, football and basketball games are divided into four quarters, a dollar is divided by four quarters, the calendar year is divided into four quarters, and the human life span might also be divided into four 20 year parts, assuming that we live an average of 80 years. In all these examples, the third period precedes...
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...The Demand: Consumer Preferences I observed people changing their cloths as long as the weather or season changes. However, why couldn’t they wear warm cloths such as winter jacket, gloves, snow boots, etc. all year long? Otherwise, why would people look at me as if I were nuts or sick when I wore a very warm jacket and snowshoes in hot summer days? Therefore, weather or season changing has a great influence on consumer’s preferences on a particular good. In addition, it can relate to one of the determinants of demand that cause a shift in the demand curve. For example, in winter, people are highly interested to wear or buy very warm clothes than in summer. Therefore, when people feel cold, the demand for warm cloths is increasing, which mean that the demand curve is going to shift out. However, in Summer, people feel hot so their interests in warm cloths is going to decrease , which leads to a shift in of the demand curve. Another example of the impact of weather changing on consumer preferences is the use of means of transportation. In very snowy days, people are demanding more to ride a bus or a car than to walk, but in nice weather such as in late spring, people are less interested in using means of transportation.so the demand for the use of means of transportation increases in snowy days that make the demand curve to shift out. While in very nice weather, people take advantage of the weather so they prefer to walk. With that, the demand for using means of transportation...
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...remembers she once had lovers but she cannot recall them individually. Now she is alone left with only regret: for the unremembered faces of her past, for the passing of her youth, and for the loneliness of her life now. The speaker regrets her inability to remember “What lips [her] lips have kissed” (Line 1). No special man or moment comes to her mind. Her memories of her former glory days haunt her. Although she cannot recall any of her lovers in particular, she hears them as she listens to the rain; unclear faces in her mind like “ghosts…that tap and sigh / Upon the glass” (ll. 3-4). Her heart aches for the “unremembered lads” that had once shared her bed. (l.7). She regrets her youth is now behind her. She compares herself to the seasons with her youth as “summer” (l.13) which is warm and green. Now she is in the time of “winter” (l.9), stark, bleak, and dreary. Those days when she was young and carefree she thought would last forever; but looking back, they seemed to have lasted only “a little while”(14). The speaker is alone: “In winter stands the lonely tree” (l.9). She cannot remember “What loves have come and gone” (l.12). She did not find that one special person to share her life with and all the “birds have vanished one by one” (l.10). She once had many lovers: “what arms have lain / Under my head till morning” (ll.2-3); but now she is lonely and sad that never again will she have someone “turn to [her] at midnight” (l.8). In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s...
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...就文体学角度简析《西风颂》 【摘要】浪漫主义盛行于欧洲18世纪末以及19世纪初。雪莱的《西风颂》是一首脍炙人口、含蕴深刻的写景名篇。雪莱借西风这一形象表达了对现实社会的不满，渴望改变现实，追求自由。追求理想、渴望新时代来临的强烈情感，堪称文学史上浪漫主义的经典之作。本文首先以音韵和停顿分析全诗的特征;其次在词汇层面该诗运用了明喻、暗喻和拟人的修辞方法使虚幻的形象变得更加具体生动,平淡的词语变得具有强烈的感染力;最后从句法层面通过对诗中倒装、重复和反问句的结构分析,使我们更加清楚形式和内容之间的关系。 【关键词】 文体学 《西风颂》 韵律 1.引言 浪漫主义盛行在一个新旧历史交替的时代，其文化价值观念总体上属于近代人文主义范畴。浪漫主义强调自我，强调追求自由，它是在反古典主义的斗争中发展起来的。而雪莱的这首写于1819年的《西风颂》，正是成为这一时期璀璨的一颗星。在一场暴风骤雨的自然景象的触发下，难以抑制的革命激情立刻冲出胸膛，一泻千里，化作激昂慷慨的歌唱。这首诗可以说是诗人“骄傲、轻捷而不驯的灵魂”的自白，是时代精神的写照。而从文体的角度来说，本诗也有着自身独特的魅力，几百年来为世人津津乐道。 韵律 《西风颂》共有五大诗节，每大节由四个三行诗何一个双行对偶句组成。诗人采用了五步抑扬格的韵律：aba,bcb,cdc.ded,ee。这种韵律抑扬顿挫，十分富有乐感。除了尾韵外，全诗大量地使用了头韵，如“O Wild West Wind”“where,winged,within”等,都以半元音为首韵/ 停顿 “一切语言和各种文体都有停顿。然而，诗歌中的停顿比散文更加明显、更加有系统、英语的停顿与诗歌的行数和节拍密切相关。”本诗中运用了大量的“中间休止”[ 王佐良，丁往道，英语文体学引论[M],北京:外语教学与研究出版社,1999(12)]，如 O Wild West Wind,thou breath of Autumn’s being, Thou,from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven,like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, 这种停顿减缓了诗的节奏,突出西风磅礴威严之势。 修辞手法 4.1明喻 本诗多处采用明喻,如“Each like a corpse within its grave”,“loose clouds like Earth’s decaying leaves are shed”,“Oh!Lift me as a leaf,a cloud!”等,分别很明确地把主体比作是坟墓中的尸体,满地的枯叶和波浪。 4.2暗喻 The locks of the approaching storm(把云层比作发怒的酒神),I fall upon the thorns of life!(把生活的磨难比作荆棘)The trumpet of a prophecy!(把西风比作号角) 4.3拟人 本诗把西风拟人化,把它称作“秋的生命”、“春季的姊妹”、“狂野的精灵”、“破坏者和保护者”，这些形象充分地表现出西风狂放不羁的性格和强大的生命力。 句法结构 5.1倒装 Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed/The winged seeds,where they lie cold and...
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...seasonal cycle. The rhapsodies of emanation of new lives and the bursting of lilacs to their fullest of blooms, the gleaming sunshine and the vibrant sonata of the birds; cumulatively seek to quench the thirsty heart of a love-sucked hart like me! Who, in this unfolding of the symphony of spring, is such an imbecile as not to be enraptured by the wizardry of “Two Tramps in Mud time” by Robert Frost, or not to be enthralled by the pensive T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”, or not to be enamoured by the soft baritone of Nat King Cole’s “Love is an April rose that grows in the early spring”? In this Arcadian backdrop, I was listening to Vivaldi’s seminal composition, “Four Seasons”. The classical concertos, each brilliantly portraying the four essential seasons, “Spring”, “Summer”, “Fall” and “Winter”. As I was ruminating on the opening notes of the piece on “Spring”, I felt that I have been greeted coldly by the winter of despair more often than that of the spring of hope. Was I being unnecessarily cynical? Could it be that I was cocooned in a cobweb of an overblown sense of self-importance so much so that I had turned pretty petulant at the herald of any misfortune that befell me? What if that shroud of ‘winter’ that I had thought about my misfortune, was actually responsible in recasting me into a more mature and self-reliant individual? Pondering about all these questions, I suddenly realized that the music had almost come to an end with the final notes...
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...Central Garden is made of quantities of azaleas, it attracts a number of tourists from all over the world to appreciate its beauty and magnificence. Irwin wants to create the art of light and space, using ephemeral materials such as scrim, lighting and orientation to alter and heighten the viewers' perception of the space in which they encountered his work (artbabble.org). That’s why he chose to use azaleas to set up the sculpture. One reason why Robert Irwin has chosen azaleas to build the sculpture is that the theme of the garden is the harmony of nature. This concept can be reflected well through putting the azaleas models on the surface of the water pool. The other reason is that the azaleas can show the features of the four natural seasons through the change of colors. Irwin began his career as an abstract expressionist; however, by the late 1960s he had moved away from painting to become one of the creators of the art (artbabble.org). Based on the background of Robert Irwin, I believe that Central Garden is an abstract work. The Central Garden was planned to be built up as the most important part of the Getty Center. 500 kinds or more of plants have been added to the garden to show the theme “Always changing, never twice the same” which is stated by Robert Irwin (getty.edu). What’s more, Central Garden has been connected to the...
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...themselves as individuals who stood apart from the crowd. Many had been interested in Porsche, as a brand, since they were teenagers. Porsche owner were interested in Porsche’s Great legacy of technical excellence and high performance. These customers typically began thinking about purchasing a Porsche once their income exceeded $100,000 a year.In Canada, a Porsche was typically a second or third vehicle in the family. It was seen as a luxury item and was well maintained with frequent washings and waxing so to drive them during winter with all the snow sand/salt it’s impossible move for most owner. Some Porsche owner are worried about resale price, most second hand car in Canada with a “summer-driven only “ usually offer a better price than all season Driven car. The reason why Porsche should sale winter equipment its because most place in Canada are getting snow, we can see on the chart most of the Porsche owner bought Cayenne (which is Sport SUV) , when you buy the Car in Canada most of the car come with summer set of equipment floor mat and etc. During winter time usually every Car will switch to snow tires and possible change rims, and most of the driver like to purchase winter floor mat to keep the interior of the car clear, and reduce the chance to erosion, and of course Roof racks can be use for putting snowboard and ski on the type of the Car. Even though the price doesn’t...
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