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Record freeze on Lake Ontario as 4,700 square miles of ice forms on Great Lakes IN ONE NIGHT
Daily Mail ^ | 2/19/14 | Mia De Graaf

Posted on 02/19/2015 6:09:51 PM PST by Libloather

More than 4,700 square miles of ice formed over the Great Lakes in just one night on Tuesday.

The Arctic blast that swept the Midwest and Northeast saw a near-record amount of Lake Ontario was iced over, with just 20 per cent of open water left.

Overall 82 percent of the five water bodies sealed up.

Temperatures are expected to drop again on Thursday night, leading forecasters to predict that figure to climb significantly by Friday morning.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chicago; freeze; greatlakes; ice; lake; lakeerie; lakehuron; lakemichigan; lakeontario; lakesuperior; michigan; ontario
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To: Libloather

Those of us who don‘t live near one of the lakes have no idea how large they really are.

First time I saw one of the lakes was in 1986, Camp Perry, Ohio. The M16 range went out over the lake. Just amazing.


41 posted on 02/19/2015 6:38:13 PM PST by Gamecock (Joel Osteen is a minister of the Gospel like Captain Crunch is a Naval line officer.)
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To: nomorelurker

A pail of air

http://www.baenebooks.com/chapters/0743498747/0743498747___6.htm


42 posted on 02/19/2015 6:38:15 PM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: Gamecock
Lake Superior storm.


43 posted on 02/19/2015 6:39:56 PM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: cripplecreek

Thank you. That was a great story.


44 posted on 02/19/2015 6:41:55 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: cripplecreek
Joe Bastardi just tweeted that its currently -28 degrees in Michigamme Michigan and the temperature won’t bottom out till 7 AM or so. They hit -39 last night.

Wow that's cold. Break out those solar panels.

45 posted on 02/19/2015 6:44:37 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Libloather

Climate change, definitely. Caused by humans. Yep.


46 posted on 02/19/2015 6:46:45 PM PST by vpintheak (Call them what they are - regressive control-freaks)
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To: PROCON

Off topic....Rudy Giuliani just stood up for himself. So glad he didn’t apologize! He was just on The Kelly File.


47 posted on 02/19/2015 6:47:43 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: Kathy in Alaska
Michigan and the Great Lakes are giving Alaska some competition.
48 posted on 02/19/2015 6:50:25 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else need s said?)
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To: JudyinCanada
I saw that segment too, I usually am watching FOXNEWS while night FReeping.

Rudy told it like most of us here feel.

49 posted on 02/19/2015 6:51:30 PM PST by PROCON (Always give 100%---unless you're donating blood.)
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To: PROCON

I’m watching the race in Daytona. Its in the 20s down there but even they mentioned temperatures in Michigan.


50 posted on 02/19/2015 6:56:37 PM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: PROCON

Check with the Canada desk at the CIA..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGkgpGybVck


51 posted on 02/19/2015 6:58:38 PM PST by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: Gamecock

I’ve competed on that range. It’s a blast. Interestingly, I also fell in love on that range. Fifteen years later we are married with three kids.


52 posted on 02/19/2015 7:01:23 PM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: Gamecock
To get a sense of how large Lake Superior is ...

The sun rises in Superior, Wisconsin -- at the far western end of the lake -- about half an hour after it has risen in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario -- at the far eastern end of the lake. If you drive between these two cities along the north shore of the lake through Ontario, the drive will take you about 11.5 hours.

You can fit all of the water in the other four Great Lakes into Lake Superior, and there would still be enough room to add the water from three more lakes the size of Lake Erie.

That is an immense body of water.

53 posted on 02/19/2015 7:03:18 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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To: cripplecreek
-2 here in Jenison. The still open water of Lake Michigan is keeping us a little warmer.
54 posted on 02/19/2015 7:05:13 PM PST by ASA Vet (Don't assume Shahanshah Obama will allow another election.)
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To: Alberta's Child

The legend lives on from the Chipewea on down from the big lake they call Gitchegoumai.


55 posted on 02/19/2015 7:20:00 PM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: Libloather
notice Seneca and Cayuga are NOT frozen over...
56 posted on 02/19/2015 7:21:21 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: nascarnation

Officer COLD is keeping the crime down


57 posted on 02/19/2015 7:21:57 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else need s said?)
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To: woodbutcher1963
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy.
58 posted on 02/19/2015 7:24:56 PM PST by Billthedrill
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Speaking of Bieber:
Parental advisory!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3v2v5yPm9U

And this on Kanye West:
Parental advisory!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7pd2I-dpzs


59 posted on 02/19/2015 7:29:10 PM PST by donaldo
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To: Alberta's Child

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitchigumi
Superior, they say, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early

G.L.

Ok, now everyone join in


60 posted on 02/19/2015 7:29:11 PM PST by woodbutcher1963
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