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The River Thaw (Welsh: Afon Ddawan) (also Ddaw) is a river in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales. At 20 kilometres/12.4 miles, it is the longest river entirely in the ...
Freshet on Ouareau River in Rawdon, Quebec, Canada An example of usage of the term "freshet" is shown in the text on a historic marker at Durgin Bridge near Sandwich, New Hampshire. The term freshet is most commonly used to describe a snowmelt , an annual high water event on rivers resulting from snow and river ice melting.
Photograph taken 21 March 2010 in Norwich, Vermont. Frost heaving (or a frost heave) is an upwards swelling of soil during freezing conditions caused by an increasing presence of ice as it grows towards the surface, upwards from the depth in the soil where freezing temperatures have penetrated into the soil (the freezing front or freezing boundary).
The River Thames frost fairs [1] were held on the tideway of the River Thames in London, England in some winters, starting at least as early as the late 7th century [2] until the early 19th century. Most were held between the early 17th and early 19th centuries during the period known as the Little Ice Age , when the river froze over most often ...
January thaw is a term applied to a thaw or rise in temperature in mid-winter found in mid-latitude North America. Sinusoidal estimates of expected temperatures, for northern locales, usually place the lowest temperatures around January 23 and the highest around July 24, and provide fairly accurate estimates of temperature expectations.
The winter of 1894–1895 was colder than that of 1962–1963 in north Scotland and east Scotland, [4] whilst, although instrumental temperature data for Scotland and Northern Ireland do not extend back to 1740, [a] station data from subsequent years suggest that the winters of 1813–1814 and 1878–1879 were almost certainly colder than 1962 ...
Development of thaw lakes tends to be slow at first, but once the average lake bottom temperature exceeds 0 °C (32 °F) the lake ceases freezing to the bottom and thaw becomes continuous. The lake grows as ice thaws, which may result in the slumping of shorelines or submergence of vegetation, which is why thaw lakes in the boreal forest tend ...
Benjamin Thaw Sr. (1859–1933), American banker and philanthropist (son of William Thaw Sr., father of William Thaw II) Eugene V. Thaw (1927-2018), American art dealer and collector; Evelyn Nesbit (c. 1884–1967), also known as Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, artists' model and actress (married Harry Kendall Thaw 1905, div. 1915, mother of Russell Thaw)