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Seven "debate" topics are known from the Sumerian literature, falling in the category of 'disputations'; some examples are: the debate between sheep and grain; the debate between bird and fish; the tree and the reed; and the dispute between silver and copper, etc. [2] These topics came some centuries after writing was established in Sumerian Mesopotamia.
The year 1816 is known as the Year Without a Summer because of severe climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0.4–0.7 °C (0.7–1 °F). [1] Summer temperatures in Europe were the coldest of any on record between 1766 and 2000, [ 2 ] resulting in crop failures and major food shortages across the Northern ...
Summer is defined as the quarter of the year with the greatest insolation and winter as the quarter with the least. The solar seasons change at the cross-quarter days, which are about 3–4 weeks earlier than the meteorological seasons and 6–7 weeks earlier than seasons starting at equinoxes and solstices.
The holiday season in December is often labeled as "the most wonderful time of the year," but for outdoor enthusiasts and folks who love to soak in the sun, that title belongs to the summer months.
Which season offers the best night skies: winter or summer? It also appears differently depending on the season. Winter vs. summer: Which season offers the best night sky?
The dry season is a yearly period of low rainfall, especially in the tropics.The weather in the tropics is dominated by the tropical rain belt, which moves from the northern to the southern tropics and back over the course of the year.
This is in general the invariable rule: winter is not said properly to begin until those few moderate days & the raising of the water has announced it to Man. The essay was first published in French around 1788, but remained unavailable in the United States until the 1920s. [5] An Indian summer day in western Massachusetts, October 2008
Daylight saving time (DST), also referred to as daylight saving(s), daylight savings time, daylight time (United States and Canada), or summer time (United Kingdom, European Union, and others), is the practice of advancing clocks to make better use of the longer daylight available during summer so that darkness falls at a later clock time.