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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. Weather refers to day-to-day temperature ...
T[hh][mm] in basic format or T[hh]:[mm] in extended format, when seconds are omitted. T[hh], when both seconds and minutes are omitted. As of ISO 8601-1:2019/Amd 1:2022, "00:00:00" may be used to refer to midnight corresponding to the instant at the beginning of a calendar day; and "24:00:00" to refer to midnight corresponding to the instant at ...
The Extended Cold Weather Clothing System ( ECWCS / ˈɛkwæks /) is a protective clothing system developed in the 1980s by the United States Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, Natick, Massachusetts. The first generation ECWCS consisted of parka and trousers plus 20 other individual clothing, handwear, headwear ...
If total CDDs were from 0 to 10% below the expected 320, the company received no discount to the power price, but if total CDDs were 11 to 20% below normal, ConEd would receive a $16,000 discount. Other discounted levels were worked in for even greater departures from normal. Weather derivatives slowly began trading over-the-counter in 1997.
An extended day program is a before or after-school voluntary program held typically in an elementary school for students whose parents work beyond school hours, since records show that 65 percent of working parents work until 5:30 p.m or longer. It is supervised by an adult or two and the kids play outdoors, sometimes on the playground, or ...
Designated. November 6, 1970. The Armistice Day Blizzard (or the Armistice Day Storm) took place in the Midwest region of the United States on November 11 ( Armistice Day) and November 12, 1940. The intense early-season "panhandle hook" winter storm cut a 1,000-mile-wide (1600 km) swath through the middle of the country from Kansas to Michigan.
Long weekend. A long weekend is a weekend that is at least three days long (i.e. a three-day weekend ), due to a public or unofficial holiday occurring on either the following Monday or preceding Friday . Many countries also have four-day weekends, in which two days adjoining the weekend are holidays. Examples are Good Friday / Easter Monday ...
Cummins diesel. 600 hp (450 kW) Suspension. torsion bar. The M1299 was an American prototype 155 mm self-propelled howitzer developed by BAE Systems beginning in 2019 under the Extended Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA) program. It was based on the M109A7 howitzer and was primarily designed for the purpose of improving the M109's effective range.