How does water make the Spring of the year cooler?
The ice and snow while melting, take up a large amount of heat, which passes into the water as latent heat.
Where does the melting ice and snow obtain this heat?
They obtain it from the air, and from objects near the surface of the earth.
What advantage is derived from this?
The tender buds and blossoms are kept back in the spring until the ice and the snow are melted, and the earth becomes warmed, so that they are seldom injured by the cold.
How does water make Summer cooler?
By the streams, lakes, and oceans, which absorb heat from the sun; and, as the water is a poor radiator, but little of this heat is given off to the air.
What effect does this heat produce upon the water?
The temperature of the water is gradually increased by it during the hot weather of summer.