Posted on 03/12/2014 9:27:57 AM PDT by crz
Edited on 03/12/2014 9:30:11 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
This winter's harsh weather has brought a record amount of ice to Lake Michigan. The National Weather Service measured the ice cover on Saturday at more than 93-percent, which is the most ice on the lake since the start of record keeping in 1973. The old record was set in 1977.
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Don’t the Great Lakes drain out through Lake Erie via Niagara Falls, then Lake Ontario into the St. Lawrence River?
Just wait! They are a commin. All it would need to do is warm up and have a hell of a t’storm around, with a downpour for about three hours, say, the first of april. Like it did back in the last time this happened around the mid 70s.
“Could take months”!? It’s March now. When do they expect to finish breaking the ice? August?
True story:
Late April, 2012: Went to a stormwater retention pond in SW-Suburban Chicago to pick-off panfish with my fly-rod.
While standing on the bank, I noticed that someone had tossed in some hi-viz traffic control devices; fluorescent-orange pieces.
Until that equipment started to swim away from my casts! Large domestic goldfish had been turned loose in the pond. AFIAK, they survive today.
Dont have to remind me..I hear it everyday from calls from the folks from my former home area. They bitch and moan and accusations of being a coward for moving and all that. I admit to it all.
Cant remember that. Why? Because all I remember is wading thourgh snow up to my waist to get home (down a county road fro about a mile) to my wife who called me at work and said she couldnt open the doors in the house anymore. And they were not blocked.
After I shoveled the roof off, we couldnt see out the windows anymore. That was near Munising Michigan.
I generally don’t mind the snow too much but this crap is getting old.
My poor dogs were heartbroken this morning. Yesterday they had bare patches of grown showing for the first time in months and today they have several inches of new snow on them.
Yes. No connection to anything else.
Then we went into a warm cycle in the 80's and most of the 90's that led to the current global warming panic.
We seem to be in a transition cycle right now.
Looks like CNY.
It started snowing here about mid-morning and we’ve had several inches already.
A few miles south of us has had rain so far but it looks like freezing rain is in the works for them.
Thanks for the Uncle Ted!
I used to do that too, before I moved. Pan fly fishing is great fun. So many of the retention ponds and all of those ponds that resulted from the building of over passes are filled with pan fish, some of them monsters.. The are very under fished or not fished at all. After I figured that out, there wasn’t a body of water that I would not cast a line into.
Do you fly fish the lake for salmon? I used to get one on a lure, use a turkey baster to evacuate its stomach, see what it is consuming, match the hatch and beat all the lure guys.
Soo locks open on the 25th. It’s going to be a brutal open to shipping season.
Fof the past 15 years or so the winters round here have been so mild the dirty sheeting Canadian Geese decided to stop half way and hag out here for the winter.
I would be surprised if it took too terribly long. Mr. Sun will make quick work of it when the snow on top melts. Have watched the ice go out on very large lakes before. It is truly amazing. And quick.
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