Sentences with phrase «ice and snow at»

Be sure that you have fresh windshield wiper blades to keep the ice and snow at bay.

19 Melting Ice and Rising Sea Levels If the global temperature increased, the amount of ice and snow at the poles would decrease, causing sea levels around the world to rise.

We all know that the Sun doesn't succeed in melting ice and snow at the top of very high mountains, even if they are near the tropics.

As local guides bound through ice and snow at high altitudes in nothing but flip - flops as your oxygen depleted body struggles with every step — you'll wonder if humans are made differently after all.

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«Our first Tesla slid off some ice late at night up at Lake Tahoe, and we ended up in a snow bank,» Wozniak said in a Q&A session jam - packed with anecdotes from his life.

I've been keeping busy, preparing for classes that were supposed to start yesterday, reading a book for a review due at the end of the month, shoveling the driveway (the first one on the block to do so, with the only emulator being the ex-Marine across the street), and watching DVDs we rented in anticipation of the great blizzard of 2011 (8 inches of snow and ice!).

This fall, a Ph.D. student at UC Irvine tweeted a graph of data collected by the National Snow and Ice Data Center that sparked a firestorm of debate.

I'm talking actual cold weather — to the point where I've even had ice frosting over my windshield at night — and SNOW in the mountains.

Still, we have great heaps of the stuff at last, fluffy and absolutely perfect for making snow ice cream.

Pour contents into a 8 x 12 ″, or similarly sized, pan / Carefully place in a secure, level spot in the freezer / Freeze for 1 — 2 hours / Remove from freezer and scrape, smash and stir mixture with a fork, breaking into small icey bits / Return to the freezer and repeat this process three more times, every 30 minutes / Granita should be done at this point, coarse bits of ice, about like a snow cone / Place granita in container, cover and freeze until ready to use.

That picture of Tenzing Norgay — the second man atop Everest and Hillary's Nepali climbing partner — with one leg in a huge snow boot cocked up on the ice, being captured by someone behind the camera who somehow did not care about taking a selfie at the top.

They were descending the North West Ridge at night and had just begun descending The Ramp when a change from powder snow to blue ice caught Ari, who was in front, by surprise.

Disney on Ice Princess Wishes shows at the TD Garden, Boston December 26 - 29 and will feature Tinker Bell, Ariel, Snow White, Jasmine, Cinderella, Belle, Aurora, and Mulan.

Of course you'll probably have to watch Frozen for the 217402347th consecutive night in a row but hey, at least it sticks with the snow day theme and if Frozen on Ice comes to town you'll probably have a decent shot being cast as Elsa considering how many times «Let it Go» has gotten stuck in your head.

About 200 Park District workers have been at the stadium since Monday, cleaning ice and snow from the stands and putting heaters in place.

While at Scenic Caves, we also checked out the 420 - foot Suspension Bridge and various caves and crevices, including the «Refrigerator Cave» — so deep and cold that snow and ice can often be spotted through early summer.

Caves extend up to 70 feet deep, with some retaining ice and snow well into the middle of summer, while the edge of the limestone cliffs at the Scenic Caves has views of the Georgian Bay and countryside that span 10,000 kilometers.

We visited the Scenic Caves about two years ago in June — we were fascinated to see ice and snow still at the bottom of the caves.

Terry Schwartz recently stared out of his office window at the Skokie Playfield, its mud surface covered with ice and snow, and remembered the summer flood of 2011.

As the holiday season is approaching, you might want to take a look at some Christmas Crafts for preschoolers and for those in the northern hemisphere, there is also a Winter Preschool Theme that includes rhymes about winter, recipes, including a fun and easy snow ice - cream recipe, a snowflake cutting craft and more!

Governor Cuomo Outlines State Preparations And Urges Precautions For Anticipated Snow And Ice Storm Monday January 31, 2011 at 08:58 pm

Sen. Tony Avella, an IDC member from Queens, is re-proposing legislation aimed at cutting down on hazards created by snow and projectile - missile - like ice that flies off vehicles driven by owners who couldn't bother to clear them off before hitting the streets.

Molinaro treated Dutchess County Department of Public Works (DPW) employees to a special luncheon yesterday at the DPW highway garage as a thank you to the more than 120 DPW employees who worked tirelessly last week during the Nor» easter to perform snow and ice removal operations to ensure continued safe travel throughout Dutchess County for residents and emergency personnel.

Snow falls lightly at the poles, but as each year's accumulation is compressed into ice, it encases chemical hallmarks of the atmosphere and climate, including traces of major eruptions.

This powerful pellet ice melt is made from 94 % pure calcium chloride that lasts up to 24 hours to melt ice and snow and keep it at bay.

The best wiper blades for winter will hold up under ice, snow, and whatever else Mother Nature decides to throw at you.

The Dry Valleys are a line of nearly snow - and ice - free valleys in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet at the edge of the Ross Ice Sheice - free valleys in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet at the edge of the Ross Ice SheIce Sheet at the edge of the Ross Ice SheIce Shelf.

«Northern Hemisphere snow cover has decreased and Arctic Sea ice has been at record low levels in the past three years.»

Mote was one of 12 lead authors on a chapter of the fifth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report looking at the cryosphere, which is comprised of snow, river and lake ice, sea ice, glaciers, ice sheets and frozen ground.

Dust found in the ice gives a record of what was in the air thousands of years ago, whether from volcanic eruptions or human activity, and the isotopic composition of the hydrogen and oxygen molecules in the snow give a record of the temperature of the earth at the time.

In an analysis, the National Snow and Ice Data Center said the sea ice extent as of Sept. 16 was 2 million square miles, an amount just below revised estimates for 2009, the former sixth place finisher, said Julienen Stroeve, a scientist at the centIce Data Center said the sea ice extent as of Sept. 16 was 2 million square miles, an amount just below revised estimates for 2009, the former sixth place finisher, said Julienen Stroeve, a scientist at the centice extent as of Sept. 16 was 2 million square miles, an amount just below revised estimates for 2009, the former sixth place finisher, said Julienen Stroeve, a scientist at the center.

«In the last stages, it was like a stack of dominoes,» says Ted Scambos, a glaciologist at the University of Colorado's National Snow and Ice Data Center.

«But because carbon is dark it absorbs sunlight, causing snow and ice to melt at accelerated rates.

The Antarctic Peninsula holds only a small fraction of the continent's ice, but it is «a natural laboratory,» says Theodore Scambos, a glaciologist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. «It's the trailer for the movie that's going to unfold over the rest of Antarctica for the next 50 to 100 years.&raqice, but it is «a natural laboratory,» says Theodore Scambos, a glaciologist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. «It's the trailer for the movie that's going to unfold over the rest of Antarctica for the next 50 to 100 years.&raqIce Data Center in Boulder, Colo. «It's the trailer for the movie that's going to unfold over the rest of Antarctica for the next 50 to 100 years.»

The existence of the pole had been known, but the inhospitable landscape presented a barrier until Amundsen's party made the dangerous trek across ice and snow to stand at the geographical South Pole on this day a century ago.

Winter sea ice has been at record lows for the past three years, according to the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Centice has been at record lows for the past three years, according to the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data CentIce Data Center.

«We still don't know exactly where the meltwater came from, but given that the average temperature at the nearest weather station has risen by about 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) over the last 50 years, it makes sense that snow and ice are melting and the resulting water is seeping down beneath the glacier,» Thompson said.

Rasmussen has analysed meteorological data from the time of the accident and he estimates that snow was falling on the plane at the rate of 2.5 millimetres per hour — fast enough to coat the plane's wings with enough ice to cause a crash.

Pettersen's approach involved studying the types of clouds that result in snow on the ice sheet, and examining the distinct paths these clouds take before they produce snow at Summit Station, a longstanding research station located in the middle of Greenland.

While Arrhenius appears to have been wrong about the temperature effect on the Antarctic, scientists today have found strong evidence for what they now call Arctic amplification in the North Pole, said Mark Serreze, the director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

This past September the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., which collects polar and ice information for the government, announced that there was less sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean than at any time since satellite measurements began in 19Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., which collects polar and ice information for the government, announced that there was less sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean than at any time since satellite measurements began in 19ice information for the government, announced that there was less sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean than at any time since satellite measurements began in 19ice covering the Arctic Ocean than at any time since satellite measurements began in 1979.

The findings back up a body of data suggesting that «the effects of global [warming] will be seen first, and will be most pronounced, in the arctic region,» says Mark Serreze, an arctic climatologist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.

But, as scientists including National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Administrator Jane Lubchenco said today at a press conference at the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting, record - setting melting happened anyway: record snow melt, record sea ice minimum, melting even at the top of the Greenland ice sheet (in what was once called the «dry snow zone»), and widespread warming of permafrost.

These events happen when winter rain percolates through snow and forms an impenetrable ice barrier over moss and lichen at the soil surface.

«It may even be possible to predict sea ice cover a year in advance with high - quality observations of sea ice thickness and snow cover over the whole Arctic,» said Cecilia Bitz, co-author and professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington.

Hundreds of ice cores taken from around the world will be stored for several centuries in a snow cave at -54 °C in Antarctica, at the Concordia station, which is run by the French Polar Institute (IPEV) and the Italian Antarctic Research program (PNRA).

David Ullman, a postdoctoral researcher at Oregon State University and lead author on the study, said there are two mechanisms through which ice sheets diminish — dynamically, from the jettisoning of icebergs at the fringes, or by a negative «surface mass balance,» which compares the amount of snow accumulation relative to melting.

Scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), University College London, University of New Hampshire and University of Washington analyzed 300 summer Arctic sea ice forecasts from 2008 to 2013 and found that forecasts are quite accurate when sea ice conditions are close to the downward trend that has been observed in Arctic sea ice for the last 30 yeaIce Data Center (NSIDC), University College London, University of New Hampshire and University of Washington analyzed 300 summer Arctic sea ice forecasts from 2008 to 2013 and found that forecasts are quite accurate when sea ice conditions are close to the downward trend that has been observed in Arctic sea ice for the last 30 yeaice forecasts from 2008 to 2013 and found that forecasts are quite accurate when sea ice conditions are close to the downward trend that has been observed in Arctic sea ice for the last 30 yeaice conditions are close to the downward trend that has been observed in Arctic sea ice for the last 30 yeaice for the last 30 years.

The Arctic's ice cover appears to have reached its minimum extent on September 10, 2016, according to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDice cover appears to have reached its minimum extent on September 10, 2016, according to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDIce Data Center (NSIDC).

When it's 20 below, Dr. Michael Twiss, professor at Clarkson University, has been known to clear the snow and lie down on the thick ice of a frozen lake and stare up at the Northern Lights.