The long, languid days of summer are gone, and the change in weather marks the beginning of a new term and, hopefully, a period of renewed energy and ambition.
John Ibbotson, director of the retail consultants Retail Vision, added: "While all retailers with seasonal lines are at risk from dramatically unseasonal weather, Marks has suffered more than most.
But nearing the weather mark, a stiff breeze kicked in out of the west and the Snow Goose heeled over.
After what had seemed like months of bitterly chill weather marked by freakish snow storms and travel chaos, the country was finally able to celebrate the arrival of spring.
When the yachts reappeared after rounding their weather mark, however, it was Endeavour -- flying its big blue spinnaker emblazoned with white stars and pushing a mighty bow wave -- that had taken the lead.
The renewed threat of invasion during the War of 1812, several years of harsh weather marked by the notable year of 1816 known as "Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death" and also called the "Year Without a Summer"—and the eventual opening of more fertile western lands slowed Vermont's population growth substantially.
However, as David Sanderson points out in the Times, the British weather marked the unofficial start of London's summer in the traditional way.
He primarily concerned himself with the weather, marking the storms and how much snow had fallen, but gradually began to include references to God and religion in his entries.
Above "calm weather", mark "humid" ".
Stick the cardboard on the strong stick, fix it vertically a foot away from the bottle and adjust it such that, when the straw stuck on the bottle is perfectly horizontal, it coincides with the "calm weather" mark on the cardboard.
She says she can also see the past in her surroundings and can feel it in the weather that marks the regular change of seasons: a sunrise in summer that turns the nearby cliffs red at dawn, a school of fish that seems to make the water boil in the fall, a seal on the beach in spring or seaweed that smells like iodine, a winter blizzard with blinding horizontal snow.
