Outside, winter flaunted its chill and howl, though the spring melt should have begun.

It is called the concreti maris purgamentum, "the leavings of the frozen sea" after the spring melt.

The spring melts are going to be in full flow.

In winter the Nu changes from blue to jade to milky green, turning yellowish brown only after the river rises with the spring melt.

Soviet officials have decided to bar villagers from their former homes until after the spring melt, he said.

Following the spring melt the creek may run high making the path impassable.

Hunters, hikers, and picnickers quit roaming the woods and fields, and some of last season's dead are not found until the spring melt.

It is most spectacular in the late spring when the spring melt is at its peak.

The glacier can be treacherous le first spring melt, and under the circumstances, I don't think 0 go around through the flathead country to the north.

The spring melt and the eventual runoff typically begins earlier in the southern part of the valley than in the northern part.