From the US National Weather Service
🥶 River Ice Alert! With cold temps sticking around through early February, we expect river ice to keep building and thickening.
Of course, river ice and pond or lake ice are not the same. River ice is generally weaker, thinner, and more unpredictable than lake ice due to moving water, currents, and structural flaws. While ponds and lakes form smooth, consistent, and safer sheets from the top down, rivers often form frazil ice (frozen slush) and experience changing conditions that can make the ice roughly 15% weaker.
Either way though, if you don’t know, don’t go.
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