Sentences with phrase «pond freeze over»

Winter just doesn't feel like winter until we've seen the pond freeze over, and woken up to a world coloured icy green and blue.

E.g., you can follow local accounts of first and last snowfall, when the pond froze over and when it thawed, and when it was judged safe for ice skating.

Preliminary reports from leg 3 are rotten ice, extensive towards ice edge at Franz Josef Land, and melt ponds freezing over.

Not exact matches

At first, I could see some romance in snowflakes, snowmen and frozen over ponds but now I'm officially done.

Our 3 acre pond has completely frozen over!

Two main geomorphological forms are commonly found in continuous permafrost regions of Eastern Canada: (i) small, shallow, narrow runnel ponds formed over melting ice wedges where peat slumping occurs, and (ii) more stable, slightly larger and deeper, polygonal ponds, which are naturally linked to the active layer freeze - thaw cycles, and can be colonized by aquatic plants and microbial mats (Fig. 1).

Photos from the US Coast Guard icebreaker Healy (http://mgds.ldeo.columbia.edu/healy/reports/aloftcon/2011/) indicate that ponds and leads began to freeze over around the first of September at 88 degrees latitude, which is in line with the relatively early leveling off of the ice extent time series shown in the NSIDC contribution.

Don't allow a fish pond to freeze over; fish need a basketball - sized hole where they can get oxygen.