Posted on 03/04/2022 6:17:20 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
GRAND LAKE, Colorado (AP) — With a backdrop of mountain vistas and a rink of natural ice, the annual ice hockey tournament at Grand Lake offers a picturesque snapshot of Colorado’s beauty. What’s not apparent is the problem brewing under players’ skates.
This year’s tournament was held a month later than normal, with thin ice forcing organizers to postpone the event originally scheduled for the third weekend of January.
“We had slushy conditions and less than six inches of ice. There just was no way it could safely be held,” said Steve Kudron, mayor of Grand Lake.
That is a reality that many communities that live near lakes, which freeze and provide myriad activities during winter months, are increasingly confronting. According to a major UN report on climate released on Monday, as the planet warms, the amount of ice, and amount of time it keeps a body of water solid, are diminishing. Those changes are forcing communities to adapt and curtail some winter activities while also raising the spectre of long-term environmental and health issues.
David Gochis, a hydrometeorologist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, says Colorado’s trend of very hot summers and last year’s unseasonably warm fall combined to raise the lake’s water temperature, contributing to a delayed and gradual freeze.
That meant the hockey tournament in Grand Lake had to be pushed back, already a sign of community adaptation.
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We had 24” of ice in northern Wisconsin, just like every year.
Damn reset liars.
The AP is nuts. We have lots of ice in Michigan.
Isn’t less ice on the lakes a GOOD thing?
Isn’t less ice on the lakes a GOOD thing?
I can look up the hill and see where the Cameron peak fire burned 200,000 acres. It was supposedly started by a fisherman. Strange thing the fire fighters had to fight fires too get our. There sure a lot of suspicious fires lately. The fire that burned 1,000 homes in Boulder, the Marshall fire, had few pine trees there. but 110 mph winds. I see a natural cycle of arson.
Oh just f the f off already. It’s in the teens tonight and single digits last night...gotta run the extra heat to keep the greenhouses warm enough $$$ Question: what scenario will be more catastrophic, global warming or global cooling?
Roger that.
It's all a matter of perspective.
My lake has 18" of ice today. 12,000 years ago, it had two miles.
So what's new?
Roger that.
It's all a matter of perspective.
My lake has 18" of ice today. 12,000 years ago, it had two miles.
So what's new?
I like it.
Brittany Peterson (D-ApePee) is a Russian agitprop tool.
About 30 miles east of Grand Lake, CO, on the “warm” side of the Continental Divide and nearly 1,000 ft. lower, the ice on the local pond was fine in Jan. and Feb. and only got too mushy to skate on about two days ago.
The next week will likely refreeze it for one last go at skating.
Grand Lake had a warm January. BFD! It happens.
Not downwind of the Great Lakes.
"Lake effect" snows which can dump 24" in less than a day tail off once the Lakes are frozen.
The pine beetle swept through Colorado and many western states. Colorado left the forest unmanaged and the dead trees standing to fall on their own. They decided it wasn’t environmentally sound to let loggers make a buck off the dead trees. That is fuel waiting to burn. That’s how pine trees reproduce, pine cones release their seed in the fire. It’s they way God designed it. I spent 50 years in Fort Collins prior to leaving the state. I left because the liberals achieved all mail in voting and the state has gone to crap since then. Even today, after all the devastating fires they have had in recent years, they still refuse to manage the forests. Let the state burn, they deserve it.
So water goes from solid form to liquid form as it warms? Shocking! /s
Nyuk nyuk nyuk!
I’m pretty sure that if I ride a bike everywhere I want to go, ice will return to the lakes. This is what I told Corn Pop at the healing circle.
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