Posted on 12/30/2017 4:40:54 PM PST by BenLurkin
Days of bone-chilling temperatures in Canada have not frozen Niagara Falls yet, but locals predict the waterfalls could come to an icy halt this winter if the present cold snap continues.
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Days of snow and thick white mist have turned the area around Niagara Falls into a crystal palace, however, rushing water could still be seen flowing over the edge of the waterfalls on Friday.
Many tourists, who continued to brave the bitterly cold December temperatures to enjoy the natural beauty of the falls, believe the coldest month of the year is actually January.
"It's particularly cold today and this week," said a tourist.
"The winter before, that's not like that. But this time, there's a special time, because really, really hard for us. It's really, really cold," said another tourist. A few days of extremely cold weather is not enough to freeze the rapids flowing over Niagra Falls. However, if the arctic blast continues, Niagra Falls could freeze in January 2018.
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Slowly I turned (because it was so cold I could barely move).
There was a link on Drudge the other day about a waterfall that had frozen in Minnesota...
OMG!!!
Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis.
Freezes each and every year. If it didn’t, THAT would be news.
;-)
I have been to the Canadian side in February when the ice on the ground ans sidewalks was about a foot thick from spray freezing.
Its Global warning as the polar vortex has been released due to the fact that the Earth’s circulation has changed. So we get the cold spreading further South.
That’s a tautology. It does NOT compute.
Its cold because there is no global warming. We still have a change of seasons and always will.
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200 years ago in 1815 Niagara Falls actually stopped. The Niagara River froze and stopped all water flow over the falls.
I checked the weather forecast for Buffalo, New York (very close to the Falls).
The high temperature for the coming week is forecast to be 19 degrees and the low is -4 degrees. Also, little sunshine is expected.
Maybe a good chance the falls will freeze.
Crystal Palace
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Alert the DEA
From the article: “According to the Canadian Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, cold weather in Toronto on Thursday smashed a 57-year-old previous record low, with the temperature at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport falling to minus 22 degrees Celsius on Thursday morning.”
Shouldn’t this necessitate Canada’s renaming of their Ministry?
There ought to be a “Trigger Alert” on FR.
Your comment caused a carbonated beverage to exit through the sinuses and onto the keyboard.
What a hoot!!!! Snort, snort. Keep the wit coming!
Slowly I turned....
“Shouldn’t this necessitate Canada’s renaming of their Ministry?”
How about => C-C-Canadian M-M-Ministry of E-E-Environment and C-C-Climate Ch-Ch-Change
It might have been stopped but not because the temperatures simply got cold and it froze. There have been a few temporary stoppages of water over the years but those were the result of ice jams upstream... but even those didn't last for long.
I was hoping that was a joke, but nope. I must have missed the change. November 4, 2015
People went down in the basin and picked up artifacts. That night the river began to flow again. A traveler later told them that a huge ice dam had blocked the flow.
...step by step...
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