It attempts to tackle the opera's main difficulty: how can the cold-hearted ice princess Turandot fall suddenly and deeply in love with her suitor, Calaf?

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The moveable dams are raised in the fall to allow ice and debris to pass during winter and early spring.

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My email back to him, educating him that hail does not fall in the crescent shaped form from an ice maker, went unanswered.

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Between 4cm and 10cm (2in to 5in) could fall in the early evening and overnight, with ice predicted on Saturday.

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In China, they use artillery shells, rockets and airplanes to spray existing cloud systems with silver iodide, a compound that triggers moisture in the clouds to form ice crystals, which then fall to earth as snow or rain.

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The rise and fall in both temperature and carbon dioxide, evident in Antarctic ice cores, was at first thought to be evidence of carbon dioxide driving climate change.

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Snow and ice are still lying in many parts of the county causing hazards for drivers as temperatures fall.

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Warming Arctic seas and a marked decline in sea ice during the summer months made it likely, they concluded, that numbers would fall by one third within three generations (45 years).

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