Posted on 05/03/2015 12:59:34 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Though the past winter was the hottest on record, it was chilly enough on the East Coast to send seasonal sheets of ice creeping across the Great Lakes. Now that that ice has cleared with spring, Lake Michigan is clear enough that shipwrecks lying on the lake bottom can be seen from the air.
The U.S. Coast Guard Air Station in Traverse City noted the crystal clear water conditions and the lost ships during a routine patrol. Last week, they posted a handful of pictures to their Facebook page. The images come from the area near Sleeping Bear Point known as the Manitou Passage Underwater Preserve, which is "one of the richest areas in Michigan for shipwreck diving," according to the preserve’s website. The lumber industry put the area on a shipping route. The North and South Manitou Islands, just north of the point, provided a somewhat sheltered area for ships hiding from storms.
Susan Cosier, writing for On Earth, reports:
Not much is known about most of the wrecks, but they do include one doomed vessel, the James McBride, which was thought to be the first to carry cargo from the Atlantic Ocean to Lake Michigan in 1848. Facebook commenters helped fill in some of the blanks, but most the historic details are still, well, watery.
The Coast Guard Air Station added what information people could dredge up from the depths of the Internet to their descriptions of each of the photos, but of the five ships they posted, three remain unidentified.
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The typical modern scientist is now a pathological liar.
Average February temp in my town was 9.8F, 12F degrees below normal.
So, we did our part to react to “the earth has a fever”.
I think last winter was more ice
I know for sure in TC last winter was colder and much more snow and ice lasted on the lake longer 5-6 weeks longer
I was there 3 weeks ago when the ice just moved off the shore and broke up and the shore parallel channel was clear
I was on front street east bay at my condo on the beach
I drank coffee and made calls around 830-9
Took a shower went out front watched all the road construction there and walked back in and the ice that had gone from the beach out several 100 yards
Gone more or less
Out to sea
I’m unfamiliar with such things
No hurricanes and twisters and cotton mouths
I’m an authority
I liked the pictures though.
Under water.
Eastern Lake Superior.
At the bottom of Lake Superior.
The claim hottest winter on record is based solely on the warm spot out in the eastern Pacific. That has formed in part by the high pressure ridge that developed during the winter. That high pressure ridge blocked air currents over the Pacific that would have cooled the water. The ridge was formed by the jet stream pattern that developed over north America. That pattern caused the cold winter in the north east. Physics is null sum game. It if was cold somewhere, it had to be hot some where else. The way the null game was basterdized by the oligarchial fascists is known as data tampering. Thus the hottest winter on record.
The zebra mussels are hard at work filtering the lake water.
The cold water kills the algae and makes the water clearer.
We here in New York had the coldest January and February ever recorded.
Who are these people taiking about?
Well if this was the hottest winter on record, I’ll take a cold one next year, please and thank you.
I spent many Summer vacations staying on Glen Lake! Beautiful there! Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes are amazing! Back in the Fifties, they had a fleet of Oldsmobile convertibles with big balloon tires that would take you on long cruises of the dunes!
Someone should do a song.
Were you pinged ?
Gonna need a bigger boat.
Lake Superior, near Whitefish Bay.
The author of this piece is obviously a true believer in AGW, so she conflates her global (mis)understanding of “warmest year/winter on record” with very localized weather phenomena thereby clearly demonstrating her complete inability to grasp even non-complex scientific issues. Typical libtard...
I never read anything that starts out with a lie. Warmest winter on record my a$$.
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