Posted on 02/11/2014 5:12:28 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Ice Expert Predicts Lake Superior Will Completely Freeze Over This Winter
February 11, 2014 - 3:22 PM
By Barbara Hollingsworth
(CNSNews.com) – Lake Superior hasn’t completely frozen over in two decades.
But an expert on Great Lakes ice says there’s a “very high likelihood” that the three-quadrillion-gallon lake will soon be totally covered with ice thanks to this winter’s record-breaking cold.
The ice cover on the largest freshwater lake in the world hit a 20-year record of 91 percent on Feb. 5, 1994.
Jay Austin, associate professor at the Large Lakes Observatory in Duluth, Minn., told CNSNews.com that he expects that record will be broken this winter when the most northern of the Great Lakes becomes totally shrouded in ice.
The thickness of the ice on Lake Superior “varies tremendously,” from a very thin sheet in some areas near the coast to several feet thick in other spots, Austin says. The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports that the mean thickness of the lake ice is 26 cm, or a little over 10 inches.
Austin attributes the large amount of ice on the lake to the “extraordinary cold winter we’ve had,” pointing out that Duluth recently experienced an all-time record of 23 straight days of below-zero temperatures.
The previous record of 22 days was set in 1936 and tied in 1963, according to the National Weather Service.
Austin, who studies the effect of lake ice, predicts that it will have a “very strong influence” on the regional climate this summer, with the “air conditioning [lake] effect” more pronounced than usual.
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Can you imagine?
Damn global warming.
We are having a good ole winter in Boston. Just like I can remember as a kid. And several other times in between.
This global warming business is a business. We’ve been getting the business. I get it. It’s not warming it’s freezing. It’s not weather it’s climate. It’s not CO2 it’s see you later.
And Superior is the deepest of the lakes at 483 feet deep.
Hell we could drive sub in there and to an icex
do
I don’t know why you ignorant conservatives think that just because there is catastrophic global warming, it actually has to get warmer! My goodness you are just so stupid (shaking head) don’t you know that for the last 20 years strong pacific winds have pushed all the extra warming into the deep Pacific Ocean?
It’s just that simple. So what if everything freezes that doesn’t count.
Obviously Obama has fixed global warming. The racists just will not give him due credit.
483 feet must be an average because the deepest part is below sea level at some 2000 feet.
Isn't it terrible, all the cold and ice and snow that is caused by global warming? /s
In January 94 I was lucky enough to be on an airline flight that crossed the Superior/Michigan/Huron area of the UP on a perfectly clear sunny day. They were all frozen and looked beautiful.
This really does remind me of winters during the late 60’s/70’s when global cooling was all the rage of liberal nut jobs.
About 95% now
http://coastwatch.glerl.noaa.gov/webdata/cwops/webdata/statistic/gif/s2013_2014_ice.gif
Scroll down on this to find graphs on all the lakes
http://coastwatch.glerl.noaa.gov/statistic/
The legend is told from the Chippewa on down,
Of the ice rink they call gitche gumee.
Al Gore it is said has a brain made of lead,
When his settled science looks goofy.
It is the average.
Max depth is 1,332 feet.
See the US is being a big hog again, an Ice Hog this time, poor Sochi had to store snow in warehouses to be sure they had enough.
Bush’s fault, I’m sure.
I bet that looked awesome.
Makes sense to me. ; )
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