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  2. Cabañuelas - Wikipedia

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    Every year, they report the weather for the coming twelve months. The cabañuelistas in Spain claim that cabañuelas is "an empirical science" and that its origin is thousands of years old, when the "only reference of the time was the Moon", even the times that Egyptians used to measure the levels of the Nile waters, the Sirius star , and that ...

  3. Climate of Spain - Wikipedia

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    The climate and landscape are determined by the Atlantic Ocean winds whose moisture gets trapped by the mountains circumventing the Spanish Atlantic coast. Because of the Foehn effect , the southern slopes fall inside the rain shadow zone and so Green Spain contrasts starkly with the rest of Spain.

  4. Weather - Wikipedia

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    Weather is the state of the atmosphere, describing for example the degree to which it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy. [1] On Earth, most weather phenomena occur in the lowest layer of the planet's atmosphere, the troposphere, [2] [3] just below the stratosphere.

  5. Why this recent TV weather forecast was so unique - AOL

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    The series focuses on ways to watch weather forecasts and learn weather in sign language, using American Sign Language (ASL). The first video of the series was a weather forecast for Oklahoma.

  6. What is El Nino and how does it affect the weather? - AOL

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    A major key to shaping weather patterns worldwide is found in the tropical Pacific Ocean, far from any mainland. Known as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), this climate phenomenon is the ...

  7. 'Feels like' temperature: What does it really mean and how ...

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    The "feels like" temperature, generally, is a more accurate description of what the human body will experience when stepping outside.

  8. Siesta - Wikipedia

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    English-language media often conflates the siesta with the two to three hour lunch break that is characteristic of Spanish working hours, [18] even though the working population is less likely to have time for a siesta and the two events are not necessarily connected. In fact, the average Spaniard works longer hours than almost all their ...

  9. History of the Spanish language - Wikipedia

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    The incorporation into Spanish of learned, or "bookish" words from its own ancestor language, Latin, is arguably another form of lexical borrowing through the influence of written language and the liturgical language of the Church. Throughout the Middle Ages and into the early modern period, most literate Spanish-speakers were also literate in ...