Sentences with phrase «early spring thaw»

While out walking during an early spring thaw, Catherine discovers the body of a woman leaning against an apple tree near her house.

Not exact matches

At the same time, producers are beginning to tap their maple trees earlier in the year because of sap flow triggered by winter thaw, but also experiencing an earlier end to the maple tapping season with a warming spring.

On the Torne River, there was a corresponding trend for earlier ice break - up in the spring, as the rate with which the river moved toward earlier thaw dates doubled.

The snows of winter and the thaws and ice storms of early spring alternately imprison and empower the dwarfed humans, whose attempts to connect with one another appear both feeble and noble in the teeth of the «vast ice - locked landscape.»

As it happens, the lake is freezing later by 8.3 days per century, and thawing earlier by 8.5 days per century, so the change in albedo for Autumn is nearly that for Spring.

Sea levels are rising (ask the Mayor of Miami who has spent tax monies to raise road levels), we've had 15 of the hottest years eve measured, more precipitation is coming down in heavy doses (think Houston), we're seeing more floods and drought than ever before (consistent with predictions), the oceans are measuring warmer, lake ice in North America is thawing sooner (where it happens in northern states and Canada), most glaciers are shrinking, early spring snowpacks out west have declined since the 1950's, growing seasons are longer throughout the plains, bird wintering ranges have moved north, leaf and bloom dates recorded by Thoreau in Walden have shifted in that area, insect populations that used to have one egg - larva - adult cycle in the summer now have two, the list goes on and on.

«Growth in the West is beginning to pick up as spring buyers start to enter the market early, boosting price growth in the region, but other areas of the country don't seem to have thawed out from the cold winter season just yet,» Whealton says.