Great Lakes Approaching 100% Ice Cover – For The First Time On Record

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/03/01/great-lakes-approaching-100-ice-cover-for-the-first-time-on-record/ ^ | 1 Mar 2014 | Steven Goddard

[shove_it]

Lake Ontario is the only major holdout, and the forecast there is for extreme cold during the next two weeks.

(more images and comments at the link)

[Cruz_West_Paul2016]

From Al Gore: this is a sign that Global Warming is terrorizing the rust belt! God forbid those 17 great lakes ever melt, the water will flow to the east coast and flood Washington DC and New York! We need to start preparing by filling 6 Trillion Bags of sea sand and line them up all the way from Boston to Florida ASAP !!!

[McGruff]

the forecast there is for extreme cold during the next two weeks.

I question that forecast.

[Sacajaweau]

Are the shipping channels closed in the winter or will they/do they send in breakers.

[Nakota]

“i wonder what makes lake ontario unique?”
Although Lake Ontario is not the largest of the great lakes in area, it is very, very deep and it takes longer to freeze this large amount of deep water.

[cripplecreek]

Technically Michigan and Huron (and Georgian Bay) are one really big lake.

[anoldafvet]

It is the depth (600 ft or more).

[cripplecreek]

[quegley]

The Great Lakes were formed by glaciers. I wonder if I will ever see the lakes have ice on them at the end of summer?

[headstamp 2]

Thanks for posting the chart, great info.

[catnipman]

You can just imagine how much worse the ice pack would be if it weren’t for global warming.

[Yardstick]

That song is really poignant.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Average depths, from your numbers:

Lake Erie 70

Lake Superior 466

Lake Ontario 296

Lake Huron 195

Lake Michigan 283

Superior is deeper, but also further inland.

[ilovesarah2012]

God has a sense of humor.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Last October, Antarctica set an all-time record for HIGHEST ever sea ice extents (area) at 19.5 million square kilometers at maximum.

This spring, Antarctica sea ice set a second-high highest sea ice minimum extents.

And, Antarctic sea ice extents has been steadily increasing ever May 2011 through ALL seasons of the year: If this rate of increase continues - which is admittedly uncertain - the Cape Horn passage will be blocked by Antarctic sea ice within 8-10 years!

[Sacajaweau]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140228160624.htm

[From The Deer Stand]

You people have it all wrong. Don’t you know that global warming “caused” the Great Lakes to freeze over? Just listen to the experts.

[cripplecreek]

[metmom]

Lake Ontario is the only major holdout, and the forecast there is for extreme cold during the next two weeks.

yippee.

More lake-effect.

I can hardly wait.......

[metmom]

i wonder what makes lake ontario unique? is it the water circulation?

It's deep.

[metmom]

i wonder what makes lake ontario unique? is it the water circulation?

It's deep.