Freeze dates are defined as the observed period when a lake or river was completely ice-covered, and break-up dates as the last ice break-up seen before the summer open-water phase.
The hosts hit back, though, and enjoyed a spell of mounting pressure late on, with 22-year-old Canadian ice hockey pin-up Crosby narrowing the gap to 4-3 on a power play with four minutes left.
Temperatures in the Arctic are now even higher than they were then, and a period of renewed ice shelf break-up has ensued since 2002.
Seasonal rains arrive late or fail altogether, sea ice platforms break-up earlier than in previous springs, king tides flood villages and contaminate food gardens with saltwater.
Her memory also made the famously ice-cold Belichick choke up in a radio interview.
In the 1920s the parents of Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi had emigrated from Italy to Leith, in Scotland, where they set up an ice-cream parlour.
Synchronised swimming mirrors the lay-out and set-up in ice skating.
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In a statement, the PSNI said motorists had a tendency to leave their vehicles running during a cold snap to de-ice them or warm them up.
Those who had been primed to feel guilty and who were subjected to the ice bucket showed initial and follow-up guilt scores averaging 2.5 and 1.1 respectively.
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News of the Wilkins ice shelf's impending break-up came less than two weeks after the United Nation's Environment Program reported that the world's glaciers are melting away and that they show "record" losses.
"As of mid-March, only a narrow strip of shelf ice was protecting several thousand kilometers of potential further break-up, " the group said.
But those who make the trip are rewarded with close-up views of stunning ice shelves, mountainous icebergs, the wildlife of the Antarctic Peninsula and fierce sunsets that can last for hours.
Added to the general atmospheric warming in the region, the researchers also describe an amplification process whereby reduced snow cover on the surrounding tundra and less sea-ice in the Arctic Ocean push up temperatures still further.
"A race is going on in Greenland between these competing forces of snow build-up in the interior and ice loss on the edges, " explained Dr Zwally.
Weather Service meteorologist Todd Heitkamp in Sioux Falls said that office had reports of ice accumulations from one-quarter of an inch up to nearly half an inch, leading to power outages and widespread tree damage.
Goc's second goal in three games was on the power play and it was set up by an excellent cross-ice pass from Tomas Fleischmann.
They concluded there was a one-in-20 chance that the melting ice would drive up sea levels by more than 84cm, essentially saying there is a 95% chance it would not go above this figure.
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Sea levels were 150 feet lower then, because the cold had locked up so much moisture in northern ice-caps, so not only were most Indonesian islands linked by land, but the Persian Gulf was dry and, crucially, the southern end of the Red Sea was a narrow strait.
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Clearly buoyed by their first-period comeback, the Penguins raced up ice time after time in waves.
Unlike normal ice, hydrate ice literally burns--light a match and it goes up in flames.
And we all dress up, and we make dry-ice punch at home, and it's really, really fun.
In the afternoon, visitors stroll along the boutique-lined alleyways, admiring the Baroque heritage (check out the 17th-century Palais Lascaris) and lapping up ice creams.
The National Weather Service predicts accumulations of up to a quarter-inch of ice across portions of Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia and the Carolinas.
Glacier Girl, a P-38 Lightning dug up from under the ice in Greenland, is the crown jewel of Rod Lewis' warbird fleet.
But the toothsome "Napoleon Dynamite" star holds up his end in the petulant squabbles that make up the bulk of the off-ice time, and he appears to know his lutz from his salchow.
Mr McNeill, 43, who also planted a flag for Cancer Research UK in memory of his father-in-law said there was not one cross word during their 28-day trek across the ice, before being picked up by an aircraft and whisked back to base camp.
And in Greenland, scientists suspect the melt waters that drain through holes, or moulins, in the ice cap to the bedrock may have contributed to the speed-up of glaciers in that region, too.
To give a simple example: if two shrewd, competing ice-cream sellers share a long beach, they will set up stalls back-to-back in the middle and stay put, explains Stephen Black, a modeller in the firm's London headquarters.
Lately, the mercury has crawled up into the 40s, turning hard-packed ice into an endless brown sea of mud.
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