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Garúa is a Spanish word meaning drizzle or mist.Although used in other contexts in the Spanish-speaking world, garúa most importantly refers to the moist cold fog that blankets the coasts of Peru, southern Ecuador, and northern Chile, especially during the southern hemisphere winter.
Starting in Decembre, residential units, homes, and buildings are decorated with poinsettias named "Noche Buena" (from the Spanish phrase that means "good night" referring to Christmas Eve). [1] In the pre-Hispanic period, they were called "Cuetlaxochitl", and were appreciated in the mid-winter.
The winter forecast. Flu season typically starts in December, rises significantly in January and February, and then starts to decline in March, “give or take a few weeks,” Murphy says.
This is a list of kigo, which are words or phrases that are associated with a particular season in Japanese poetry.They provide an economy of expression that is especially valuable in the very short haiku, as well as the longer linked-verse forms renku and renga, to indicate the season referenced in the poem or stanza.
The word “fall” refers to the falling leaves, a hallmark of the season. According to Merriam-Webster, the word autumn – derived from the Latin “autumnus” – was originally more commonly ...
Let it snow in North and East US. Through Saturday evening, snowfall of 2 to 5 inches is expected to fall across northeast New Jersey, New York City, the Lower Hudson Valley, and parts of western ...
The words Apertura and Clausura are used in most Latin American countries. Some, however, use different terminology: Colombia: Apertura and Finalización; Costa Rica: Invierno and Verano (Spanish for "winter" and "summer"); until the 2016–17 season. In most leagues, each tournament constitutes a national championship in itself.
This word ending—thought to be difficult for Spanish speakers to pronounce at the time—evolved in Spanish into a "-te" ending (e.g. axolotl = ajolote). As a rule of thumb, a Spanish word for an animal, plant, food or home appliance widely used in Mexico and ending in "-te" is highly likely to have a Nahuatl origin.