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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We went to Niagara on our honeymoon and arrived there around five in the evening on April 30, 1962. The basin was frozen solid when we arrived. We stayed in what was then the Park Hotel which was right on the river next to the falls. During the night we were awakened by what sounded like cannon fire.It was very very loud. When we went to the falls the next morning the ice was gone. It had broken apart during the night and was swept downstream. We never forgot that sound. By the way this was a nice hotel that as we remember it cost $10.00 for the night.
Nice!
...inch by inch...
a carbonated beverage
. . . .
Well, Coke, or 7-Up is messy
A beer is a waste!
You’re spot on! I lived a few blocks from there for 50 years. It freezes solid every winter. We climbed all over behind the ice beards, when we were kids.
Someone needs to page Al Gore and have him bring down a weed burner. Tell him to stand under the falls and melt it.
That is now illegal.
Some folks have died doing that in recent years.
“Slowly, I turned...”
We see eye-to-eye on the waste.
Though it was a fine micro-brew it can’t be seen as a waste since your comment was worth the loss.
Wit is rare. Beer is common. :-)
That’s a great story and memory. I wasn’t even born or though off. Great history
I won’t say it was the smartest thing to be doing, but we were used to the creek and the river. We had a pretty good idea of the dangers. Spent a lot of time playing in the caves under the old soldier’s home, as well.
Its amazing that the increase from 3 molecules of CO2 per 10,000 molecules of air to 4 molecules of CO2 per 10,000 molecules of air is powerful enough to freeze a waterfall which up until this year has never happened before
This is Niagara Falls, frozen over. Some people say the photo was taken in 1911, but apparently, amazingly, it seems more likely that it was actually taken in 1848. An ice damn which formed at Fort Erie that year caused the flow of water over the falls to stop completely.
This is the kind of sloppiness that makes one hate reporters. If there is one thing that the science of climatology (and there is underneath all the global warming baloney, an underlying scientific practice) can establish with a reasonable degree of certainty, it is which month, on average is the coldest at Niagra Falls.
For as long as I can remember, Crystal Palace has been fighting relegation. Go Liverpool!
It’s not the first time and won’t be the last.
The sounds of cannon fire ? Must have been some honeymoon.
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