frost

The temperature was cool most of the year, without frost or heat, an environment that allows grapes to grow in abundance—and slowly develop the concentrated flavors that wine drinkers covet.

Walmart said its ingredient changes will affect products such as sports drinks, cake frosting and cheese dip, with some changes already showing up on its shelves.

The Japanese concept of kō, or micro-seasons, reads like a fieldworker’s prayer: fish emerge from ice; farmers drain fields; last frost, rice seedlings grow.

Monday morning saw a frost in quite a few places.

Temperatures will tend to be a little below average with a few pockets of rural frost.