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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

Posted on 03/02/2014 8:41:36 AM PST by shove_it

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To: shove_it
It has been forecast that the temps will drop to 28 degrees in Houston tonight. That is unheard of for March! I had to cover my geraniums IN MARCH!!!!!!!

Glowbull warming my rear end! I just love it when al gore and his band of merry men are wrong wrong wrong! :)

81 posted on 03/02/2014 5:24:15 PM PST by Ditter
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To: Ditter

Oh the horror.

I’m hoping to see grass some time this month.


82 posted on 03/02/2014 5:35:03 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: lacrew

Q: “How do you spell Gobbleleedook?”

A: gob·ble·dy·gook

Source: https://www.google.com/search?q=gobbledygook&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS495US496&oq=Gobbleleedook&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.8411j0j8&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8

(not trying to be a smartass, I had to look it up to be sure)


83 posted on 03/02/2014 5:51:00 PM PST by shove_it (long ago Orwell and Rand warned us of ObamaÂ’s America)
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To: beebuster2000

Formerly occupied by glacial ice?


84 posted on 03/02/2014 7:15:48 PM PST by Ozark Tom
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To: quegley

Only if we are ending the Holocene Epoch.


85 posted on 03/02/2014 7:22:36 PM PST by Ozark Tom
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To: Ditter

Our temperature in west central Texas was 24 degrees cooler then they were predicting just last night.


86 posted on 03/02/2014 7:44:54 PM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: metmom
I haven't seen snow in over 20 years. For our part of the country we have had some unusually cold weather.
87 posted on 03/02/2014 8:24:55 PM PST by Ditter
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To: Ditter

I could die happy if I never saw snow again.


88 posted on 03/03/2014 5:37:44 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: shove_it

(not a recent pic, just an indicative pic.)

89 posted on 03/03/2014 5:50:41 AM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: metmom
It is spring on the Gulf Coast, winter is usually over by now. The blooming trees are finished, my azaleas are popping out, camellias are in full bloom. The Houston Azalea Trail is weekend after next........ you get the picture......... I love it when algore is wrong!
90 posted on 03/03/2014 6:00:55 AM PST by Ditter
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To: Ditter

Sign me up for more of that global warming.

It’s 11 degrees out right now.


91 posted on 03/03/2014 1:32:37 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: metmom

You knew when you bought that house that it was in NY, don’t come crying to me! :)

Come down here next August and we will find you another house (if you can stand it)!


92 posted on 03/03/2014 1:38:44 PM PST by Ditter
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To: Ditter

That’s tempting.....


93 posted on 03/03/2014 2:26:33 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: reformedliberal

Our weather here in Michigan primarily depends on the Great Lakes. The retired meteorologist Craig James said many times that weather forecasting was more difficult here than anywhere, and he also gets high marks for calling everyone out on the global warming hoax.

The winter arrived about a month early; the big lakes didn’t have that long cooling period that keeps them from freezing over. It was so cold and stayed that way that the surface iced, and when the waves (it’s denied even by people who live here, but the Lakes also have tides) went up and over, it was like making an ice omelet.

But the satellite lake temps still showed in the low to mid 40s F, after the whole surface as far as the eye could see from shore was white ice.

We were at 16 below here this morning; the days have been sunny as all get out, as Earth makes its way around the Sun, but the temps haven’t risen.

There are huge assed piles of ice and snow from the plowing and shovels, and it hasn’t warmed up enough at any time this winter to melt any of it. It’s perfectly understandable I think that, within a couple of weeks (the 21st isn’t far off now) a lot of this will just melt at the same time, and we’ll have flooding on dry land as it were. The river will rise. But meantime, the Sun has a lot of catching up to do, because of all the ice piles keeping the temps low.

Because of the depth of most of these Great Lakes, there’s a lot of mass, and water cools down (and heats up) more slowly than land does. Typically these sunny days take the frozen surface of the Lakes from solid ice to open water in the space of a week at most. Once all the ice is gone (and ice is an insulator, believe or not) all that meltwater will arrive from swollen rivers.

It’ll mean a long, cool Spring, more like I remember it from childhood, when time took longer to go by. Last frost probably won’t be later than usual. Lake levels will be up. We’ll have more rain in the summer, which will please all the “it isn’t the heat, it’s the humidity” people. Should be a good year for carrots, radishes, corn, and greens (lettuce, spinach). Peppers were expensive last year, probably be a good choice to grow instead of tomatoes because of the mold we’re likely to have this year. Melon prices will probably be higher, yields down (around here).


94 posted on 03/03/2014 4:47:28 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: reformedliberal

Lake Temps (graphic is updated from time to time, more in the summer)

http://www.coastwatch.msu.edu/michigan/m4.gif


95 posted on 03/03/2014 4:59:49 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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