Sentences with phrase «river freezes over»

The river freezes over and you can walk through the slot canyon on what would normally be rushing water.

As snowflakes drop on rugged mountain peaks and glistening rivers freeze over into cool ice, many countries in Europe turn into winter wonderlands.

Lakes and rivers freeze over, allowing for some opportunities to flank, although the ice can be destroyed using explosives and mortars, meaning you need to be very careful when maneuvering valuable tanks across these features lest they sink before seeing any action.

In the mid 19th century, the Mississippi river froze over in the winter so you could drive on it at St. Louis.

And that there is good evidence for a medieval warm period and much cooler times, for example during the 15th century and early 19th century the Thames River froze over it was so cold.

Instead when North Dakota floods because a river froze over and explosives are needed to break up the ice, we hear about how global warming causes extreme weather events.

Similarly, a river freezing over once, maybe even 5 times in a row, is weather, while a river freezing over every year for hundreds or thousands of years is climate.

Not exact matches

Residents in the historic Stockade neighborhood on the Mohawk River woke up yesterday to frozen streets after ice floes forced water over the river's banks Saturday nRiver woke up yesterday to frozen streets after ice floes forced water over the river's banks Saturday nriver's banks Saturday night.

Over the years, the Yukon River ice has been breaking up earlier and freezing up later.

Davis likens the technique to flying over a frozen river where you can see static patterns formed by the ice while also detecting flowing liquid water — and doing it over and over through the spring as the frozen waterway gradually melts.

More than a century ago, New York City's East River would freeze over every few decades, creating major issues for commuters who relied on ferries for access to Manhattan from the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens.

During the LIA, parts of the northern hemisphere cooled by as much as two degrees Celsius — causing the River Thames to freeze over completely.

SPC sounds like an appropriate fit for the film, given that they've had some success lately with female - skewing arthouse titles like «Rachel Getting Married,» «I've Loved You So Long» and their canny acquisition from last year's festival, «Frozen River» — even if those films» campaigns have lost some steam over the course of the season.

Head over to the frozen river and start heading upwards, avoiding the Cooligans as they march and slide down.

Screeners of Isabel Coixet's «Elegy» are set to go out to Academy members this week, fresh on the heels of Sony Pictures Classics» «Frozen River,» which went out over the weekend.

Nutti Sámi Siida is the only company offering reindeer sledding tours through woods, across frozen lakes and rivers, and even over the tundra.

As Lake Brooks and Naknek Lake freeze over during the Alaska's long, cold winter the Brooks River continues to flow.

Journey over frozen lakes and rivers and through the beautiful Saguenay forests and experience the Mahikan, a unique breed of dog which legend believes «fears nothing».

It is just a nickname for a cold period when the river Thames froze over during winter.

While this may initially seem beneficial, transportation and movement of wildlife across the tundra is made much easier when the land surface (and rivers) are frozen over.

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The earth is 15 years from a «mini ice - age» that will cause bitterly cold winters during which rivers such as the Thames freeze over, scientists have predicted.

«The global temperature has been rising at a steady trend rate of 0.5 °C per century since the end of the little ice age in the 1700s (when the Thames River would freeze over every winter; the last time it froze over was 1804)...

On the other hand you might be involved in transporting goods along the Thames, in which case the river not freezing over each winter might help your business.

During this time the River Thames regularly froze over, and harsh winters caused increased death and suffering.

[8] Tide mills were technically similar to water mills, but they were more reliable because the sea is less prone to dry out, freeze over, or change its water level than a river.

The MacKenzie River region, which supports one of the world's last major wild rivers, has warmed by 3.1 ° F (1.7 ° C) over the past century.2, 3 This warming has endangered the long - term stability of much of the permafrost — the frozen mix of rock, soil, and ice that underlies and surrounds the river basin3, 3 — raising the risk of erosion, flooding, landslides, and other significant changes to the landscape.2, 3,River region, which supports one of the world's last major wild rivers, has warmed by 3.1 ° F (1.7 ° C) over the past century.2, 3 This warming has endangered the long - term stability of much of the permafrost — the frozen mix of rock, soil, and ice that underlies and surrounds the river basin3, 3 — raising the risk of erosion, flooding, landslides, and other significant changes to the landscape.2, 3,river basin3, 3 — raising the risk of erosion, flooding, landslides, and other significant changes to the landscape.2, 3,4,5,6

The freeze date for lakes and rivers in the Northern Hemisphere has moved later in the year, at an average rate of six days per 100 years, while the ice break - up date has moved up earlier in the year, at an average rate of a little more than six days over the last 100 years.6 Smaller lakes in North American show a uniform trend toward earlier ice break - up, up to 13 days early.7

After freezing over regularly during the Little Ice Age the River Thames froze for the last time in 1814, as the Earth moved into what might be called the Modern Warm Period.

The rivers, which then seldom failed to freeze over in the course of the winter, scarcely ever do so now.

The observed effects of cryosphere reduction include modification of river regimes due to enhanced glacial melt, snowmelt advance and enhanced winter base flow; formation of thermokarst terrain and disappearance of surface lakes in thawing permafrost; decrease in potential travel days of vehicles over frozen roads in the Arctic; enhanced potential for glacier hazards and slope instability due to mechanical weakening driven by ice and permafrost melting; regional ocean freshening; sea - level rise due to glacier and ice sheet shrinkage; biotic colonisation and faunal changes in deglaciated terrain; changes in freshwater and marine ecosystems affected by lake - ice and sea - ice reduction; changes in livelihoods; reduced tourism activities related to skiing, ice climbing and scenic activities in cryospheric areas affected by degradation; and increased ease of ship transportation in the Arctic.