Sentences with phrase «river ice breaks»

For those that don't know what the «Classic» is, it is lottery competition that has been running since 1917 to guess the date on which the Nenana river ice breaks up in the spring.

Not exact matches

The kids ran and fell and broke through the ice and made snowballs and kept veering off to go see what the river looked like every couple of minutes.

Snow melt and rain will cause many rivers and streams to rise, potentially breaking ice layers causing ice jams and localized flooding -LSB-...]

Snow melt and rain will cause many rivers and streams to rise, potentially breaking ice layers causing ice jams and localized flooding with water covered roads, especially in low lying areas and urban and poor drainage areas.

The temperature records showed a warming spike after the 1970s, and the ice records documented that river ice is breaking up about nine days earlier now than last century.

Inch by inch the huge river of ice which we call a glacier creeps toward the sea, and here its projecting end is broken off by the action of the waves.

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

The breaking apart of the ice shelf in the channels is similar to removing an ice jam from a river.

Devastating floods occurred with the Mississippi River in 2011, and this marked the start of a record - breaking year of droughts and heat waves in the United States that stretched into the fall of 2012, as well as the lowest level of ice extent in the Arctic.

Along a Finnish river, starting in 1693, local merchants recorded the date the ice broke up each 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 douRiver, 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 douriver moved toward earlier thaw dates doubled.

Just a foot since November, which had then melted away on three strangely warm days in early February, though the thick ice on the Hudson River had not yet broken.

Leash your pets if you have frozen ponds, lakes or rivers nearby, as loose pets can break through ice and quickly succumb to hypothermia before trained ice - rescue personnel can arrive.

The Russians cross the precarious frozen river with tanks and infantry in an attempt to break the siege, all while the ice is being bombarded by artillery.

Along the way, take a break with a cone from Morgenstern's Finest Ices, or beer and a slice on the Roberta's pizza deck: or try lunch at Foul Witch, a pop - up from Brooklyn's Michelin - starred Blanca, where experimental cuisine and stunning views over the East River come together.

The same goes for the snouts of «outlet» glaciers, where ice from the interior funnels through gaps in coastal mountain ranges, and where warming seawater has broken up clots of ice that can hold things up, like a logjam in a river.

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Data on ice break - up, freezing date and ice duration in Finnish lakes and rivers can be found from this report.

The warm temperatures also melted snow and broke up ice on rivers leading to ice jams on the Wabash River from the 19th through the 24th.

A river gets blocked by glacial ice and 50 years later glacial lake Missoula breaks out and the Scablands of Washington State are created.

You can't fake spring coming earlier, or trees growing higher up on mountains, or glaciers retreating for kilometres up valleys, or shrinking ice cover in the Arctic, or birds changing their migration times, or permafrost melting in Alaska, or the tropics expanding, or ice shelves on the Antarctic peninsula breaking up, or peak river flow occurring earlier in summer because of earlier snowmelt, or sea level rising faster and faster, or any of the thousands of similar examples.

Furthermore, past environmental reports highlighted that glaciers have shrunk, ice on rivers and lakes are prematurely breaking apart, and trees are either flowering or die sooner.

This year's record - breaking temperatures have robbed the Arctic of its winter, sending snowmobilers plunging through thin ice into freezing rivers and forcing deliveries of snow to the starting line of Alaska's legendary Iditarod dogsledding race.

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.

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

The PIG Principle: The breaking apart of the ice shelf in the channels is similar to removing an ice jam from a river.

For some reason the sunspot number has obvious effect on the ice breaking date on river Tornio, but (they claim) no effect on global temperature.

the ice breaking date is the rather dramatic date that the first crack appears on the frozen river.

Hannu, If anythign the river ice data shows nothing is changing, and in the recent period it is breaking up later; The trend is a very smooth change.