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The International Fixed Calendar (also known as the Cotsworth plan, the Cotsworth calendar, the Eastman plan or the Yearal[ 1] was a proposed calendar reform designed by Moses B. Cotsworth, first presented in 1902. [ 2] The International Fixed Calendar divides the year into 13 months of 28-days each.
The warmest day on record for the entire planet was 22 July 2024 when the highest global average temperature was recorded at 17.16 °C (62.89 °F). [ 20 ] The previous record was 17.09 °C (62.76 °F) set the day before on 21 July 2024. [ 20 ] The month of July 2023 was the hottest month on record globally. [ 21 ]
General. List of weather records. Large-scale events that affected Minnesota. 2007 Midwest flooding. Mid-June 1992 Tornado Outbreak. 1968 Tracy tornado. 1991 Halloween blizzard. Great Storm of 1975. 1936 North American heat wave.
The Gregorian calendar, like the Julian calendar, is a solar calendar with 12 months of 28–31 days each. The year in both calendars consists of 365 days, with a leap day being added to February in the leap years. The months and length of months in the Gregorian calendar are the same as for the Julian calendar.
Date Highest 5-min total 32 mm (1.3 in) Preston, Lancashire: 10 August 1893 Highest 30-min total 80 mm (3.1 in) Eskdalemuir, Dumfries and Galloway [7] 26 June 1953 Highest 60-min total 92 mm (3.6 in) Maidenhead, Berkshire: 12 July 1901 Highest 90-min total 117 mm (4.6 in) Dunsop Valley, Lancashire 8 August 1967 Highest 120-min total
Other formula-based calendars can have lengths which are further out of step with the solar cycle: for example, the Julian calendar has an average length of 365.25 days, and the Hebrew calendar has an average length of 365.2468 days. The Lunar Hijri calendar is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 months in a year of 354 or 355
Advent calendars were adopted at some point in the 19th century by German Lutherans as a way to mark the days of the season leading up to Christmas. Most of the time the days leading up were ...
The following table lists the highest and lowest temperatures recorded in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the 5 inhabited U.S. territories during the past two centuries, in both Fahrenheit and Celsius. [1] If two dates have the same temperature record (e.g. record low of 40 °F or 4.4 °C in 1911 in Aibonito and 1966 in San ...