Temperate

A tablespoonful of water, exposed to the air in an open saucer, would wholly evaporate in thirty-six hours, when the thermometer did not mark higher than the "Temperate" point at the warmest hour of the day.

First Across the Continent; The Story of The Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 1805

"Planet With 'Temperate' Climate Found" -- headline, CBC. ca, March 17

Smart President, Foolish Choices James Taranto 2010

They're sure as hell not water-stressed: here in the Temperate Rain Forest* of Central Connecticut, we haven't had a dry day in two weeks.

i'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade matociquala 2009

“Temperate rain forest” is usually taken to mean a region of temperate climate where the rainfall, because of mountain barriers or weather patterns, is noticably higher than the norm for temperate forests and results in foliage much denser than what humans would consider the norm for this climate zone.

Matthew Yglesias » By Request: Missing the Trees 2009

Temperate as he had always been, save on rare occasions, now that he had the wherewithal for unlimited drinks and had daily access to them, he drank even less.

Chapter XI 2010

Temperate spring weather in the major gas-consuming regions and a bounty of supply from onshore shale-rock formations drove gas prices down.

Natural-Gas Futures Recede Toward $4 Christine Buurma 2010

Temperate spring weather in the major gas-consuming regions and a bounty of supply from onshore shale-rock formations drove gas prices down.

Natural-Gas Futures Recede Toward $4 Christine Buurma 2010

Paul Alaback "Temperate and Boreal Rainforests of the World: Ecology and Conservation," published by Island Press, documents that in 2007 the 250 million acres of temperate and high-latitude forests stored 196 gigatons of carbon -- the equivalent of six times the amount of carbon dioxide humans emit each year by burning fossil fuels.

Cool rainforests store more carbon, book finds Juliet Eilperin 2010

Temperate spring weather in the major gas-consuming regions and a bounty of supply from onshore shale-rock formations drove gas prices down.

Natural-Gas Futures Recede Toward $4 Christine Buurma 2010

Miami apologized to hurricane victims and are now the Miami Temperate.

Steven Clifford: Colleges Drop Predatory, Bellicose Team Names 2010