Posted on 02/21/2015 7:27:19 AM PST by shove_it
“Great Lakes ice is now running ahead of last year and ice will increase with more brutal cold coming,” says meteorologist Joe d’Aleo. “We are likely to have the most ice since records began.”
“By the end of February the entire country east of the Rockies will have averaged below normal,” says d’Aleo. “Boston will have either the coldest or second coldest month in their history. It is nearly 13F below normal in Cleveland and all points east for February. Boston has the second most snow for the season and is very likely to be the snowiest ever by the end of the winter. They blew away the all time monthly snow record by 18 inches and could end up with 6 feet if models are right in 1 month. Ice has clogged Delaware Bay and New York and Boston Harbors.”
“Ice is seen as far south as off the New Jersey Coast and will likely clog Boston and New York Harbor in the brutal cold of the next 10 days. Freezing spray warnings are in effect in the waters around NYC this morning.”
http://icecap.us/index.php
Thanks to Joe d’Aleo for this info
Global Warming guru kogi – wearing his ever present Nobel medal – is seen here en-route to an important “scientific” conference in Nassau hosted by the UN/IPCC where he was to be the keynote speaker.
Topics on the agenda were to have included “Finding a Good Bail Bondsman,” “Not ALL Criminal Lawyers Are Sharks,” “Changing Careers for Dummies,” “You Want Fries With That?,” “How To Encrypt Emails,” “The Best Prison Jobs,” “Getting Along With Your Cellmate” and “Getting Used to Sleeping On Your Back.”
A sudden – and unfortunate – blast of what the “scientist” in charge of the conference termed “global warming” caused the meeting to be rescheduled until Algore can be thawed some time next Spring – assuming there will BE one.
Our reporter has learned that the influential conservative web site Free Republic has launched a contribution drive to rent a freezer locker in which to keep Gore for the 10 to 15 years estimated it will take for the so-called “mainstream media” to begin covering the Climategate story.
But... but... I thought January was the warmest January of all time, per the global warming crowd. It must be really hot somewhere else, right?
I remember the story about the ice caves from last winter ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3127012/posts
... and there was another one about a group or guys who walked eight miles out on the ice to the lighthouse off Leland but I can’t find it now. It would not be good idea to try try that again!!
How about the ice on Lake Superior sticking around until July last year?
http://iceagenow.info/2014/07/ice-lake-superior-july/
Probably happen again this year!
16 years in the North Star State.
I missed that one.
Well, see that’s because globull warming heated up the water in the lakes causing it to freeze faster and deeper!
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This last couple of weeks has been very cold, but last year we had a long period between mid December and mid February where the temps literally hovered between 0 and 5 degrees. It also snowed daily, AND we had high winds.
The ice cave phenomenon of last year happened because the lake froze out in the shallow areas, then the high winds roiled the lake for about a month. The first few hundred yards that had been frozen remained so, but the winds prevented the lake from freezing further out, even though the temps were constantly near zero.
The winds splashed against the existing frozen mass, and kept spraying up on the ice, building these massive iceberg like caves and odd sculptures, many as high as thirty five feet. When the winds stopped in early February, the temps took their toll on Lake Michigan and it froze within two weeks, becoming the second most frozen year in our recorded history.
As I said on one of these threads yesterday, unless we have an extremely bitter cold March, I doubt we will even be as frozen as last year. It is supposed to be bitter tomorrow, so I expect the lake to refreeze, but once again, not to the point that I would walk on it as we did when checking out the ice caves last year.
Is there anybody ice fishing on Chesapeake Bay?
Do you remember the story from last year about the men walking out on the ice to the lighthouse eight miles offshore Leland? I can’t find it.
That’s right, we rule. Now if you’ll pardon me, I’m going to go sit in the fireplace.
It is said that there were years in the late eighteen hundreds and early nineteen hundreds when people would walk those miles between the islands somewhat commonly.
My daughter in law has a great aunt, whose family lived and farmed on North Manitou Island, and it is said that when she was three, the whole family took their belongings, and small amounts of livestock, walked across the ice to the Sleeping Bear Dunes area, and never returned to their farm.
The libs up here are whining about climate change, I like to remind them that none of this is new, asking the question to them of how this happened before the onslaught of carbon dioxide we're supposed to be experiencing.
It's so warm I was thinking about planting some tomatoes but I forgot there's snow on the ground.
Feels downright springlike at 22 degrees. LOL
Yes, that’s it - here’s the link to the story with pictures:
“On Thursday, March 6th, 2014, we attempted something that hasn’t been done for 40 years: to hike the treacherous ice across the Manitou Passage to the islands 8 miles out” ...
http://www.cherryrepublic.com/up-north/outdoors/hiking-north-manitou-island/
I don’t guess that crew will be trying that again this year.
That is a strange sensation. I remember back in the late 70’s when 10 above felt warm.
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