The stream froze in winter and didn't thaw until early summer due to the insulating layer of vegetation.
It was cold, though not so cold that the streams had frozen.
All rivers and freshwater lakes freeze over in the winter, and smaller streams commonly freeze to the bottom.
The danger of low water flows is that streams could freeze and then rip the fish eggs from the water bed.
In two months, though, when the trees grew bare and the streams froze, I hoped God might still hear us, above the howl of the winter wind.
Part of Korouoma's distinctive nature are the clifs both sides of it, where several streams freeze during the winter forming huge ice formations.
The few streams they encountered were shallow and had mostly frozen over.
Norphel noticed a small stream had frozen solid under the shade of a group of poplar trees, though it flowed freely elsewhere in his yard.
The little scintillating streams had frozen rigid.
Not a day went by that the sky did not shed snow; the winds wailed and raged from dawn to dusk; the streams and rivers froze hard.