When spring comes, dry ice warms up and expands.

BBC: Doubts over water on Mars

It is thought the search for the meteorite will be delayed until the ice melts in the spring.

BBC: Russia sends clean-up team to meteorite-hit Urals

This triggered an early spring melt, which made the ice vulnerable to the impact of high summer temperatures.

BBC: Record ice loss in Arctic

In the spring and summer of recent years, the polar ice cap has receded more quickly and more dramatically.

NPR: Oceanographer Sees Real Effects of Climate Change

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

WSJ: Homeowners sue NY over $4.6M in flood damage

The seasonal increase results from tons of carbon dioxide, which had been frozen into a southern winter ice cap, returning into the atmosphere as southern spring turns to summer.

ENGADGET: Curiosity rover finds radiation levels on Mars are safe for humans

What will happen when the sun finally comes out and the snow stops and the ice melts and the whole landscape is transformed into spring and stuff is blooming and farmers are running their gigantic combines up and down the long rows?

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Ice is more likely to break off from shore as temperatures rise in spring.

CNN: More than 220 rescued from ice floes off Latvian coast