Posted on 02/10/2007 5:36:32 AM PST by kellynla
Not by Fire but by Ice
THE NEXT ICE AGE - NOW!
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I spent one winter up there,...shoveled my driveway twice a day,,,left before seeing a really bad winter ,...
That's why I said 'open water'. If you have open water and it is -100, it will snow. So if it is not snowing, it is because the lake is frozen, not because it is too cold.
I am south of Lake Erie. It's now 90% frozen, so my lake effect snow is a goner until late March, early April. We sometime get good amounts then as the lake is opening up again.
global warming, my rather large derriere! bump!
Erie is just about 100% frozen now, even though it got a late start. (It gets nice and warm in the summer. Up in the 70s.) Here's the Feb 8 chart.
http://www.natice.noaa.gov/pub/Great_Lakes/5_Lake_Composite/East_Composite/el070208color.jpg
It freezes first on the WEST end due to the shallow water. It is close to being two lakes. West of the islands and east of the islands. Max depth on the east is about 210 feet and averages 80 feet. The western basin averages only 24 feet and the central 60. Here is the Feb 8 ice chart of the rest of the lakes.
http://www.natice.noaa.gov/pub/Great_Lakes/5_Lake_Composite/West_Composite/wl070208color.jpg
Just found this about Lake Superior.
"Lake Superior froze over nearly 100 percent in 1996 96 percent in 1994 and about 95 percent in 1972. The last records of complete ice coverage on the big lake is 1979 and 1962."
March 12, 2003
TORONTO Three of North Americas Great Lakes Lake Huron, Lake Superior and Lake Erie have frozen over for the first time in nearly a decade after icy weather lasting more than a month, experts at Environment Canada said on Tuesday.
A month of temperatures below minus 4 Fahrenheit has caused an ice blanket averaging as much as 24 inches on the lakes, creating problems for shipping companies and ferries.
"The large lakes freeze once every decade," said John Falkingham, chief of forecast operations, at the Canadian Ice Service, which is part of Environment Canada. "A sustained long, cold spell causes such an extensive ice cover."
Shoveling snow this week in upstate New York, including this scene Thursday in the town of Pulaski, is no easy task. Lake effect snow has buried the area under as much as three inches of snow an hour.
A street sign is covered with snow as Peytyn Tarbell, 4, plays on top of a massive snow pile in front of her house in Pulaski, N.Y., Thursday, Feb. 8, 2007.
Friend Jon Fielder, 17, center pushes Emma Martin, 2, in her stroller as her parents Ruth Scriber, 23, left, and Josh Martin, 26, right, walk down a shoveled path on Route 13 South in Pulaski, N.Y., Thursday, Feb. 8, 2007, during a trip to the grocery store. Lake effects snows have buried the area under as much as three inches of snow an hour.
You should email those pix to Al Bore. LOL
You guys just do not get it. had it not been for the FACT we have global warming they would already have 20 feet of snow.
But I've heard a rumor that Obama and Hillery will go there and make one of their hot air speeches.
like I've been saying for months,
the clowns who are pontificating "global warming" are the same ones who were proclaiming "global cooling" in the 70's...
these geniuses have about as much credibility as a screen door on a submarine. LOL
Thanks Mayor. I originally misunderstood ;)
And when was the last time Lake Ontario froze over? This is the one causing all the "global warming induced snow" right now.
1874 and 1934. Typical year sees only 10-25% frozen.
http://islandnet.com/~see/weather/whys/lontario.htm
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mlakeeffectsnow.html
They would have had all that snow just about any year. Nothing special about this year. Not caused by 'global warming' at all.
The glaciers have returned to NY State?
Not only that, I hear the woolly mammoth is making a comeback!
Say, be a peach and pass this along to Algore and your enviro-weenie pals - summer is hot, winter is cold, spring and autumn are kinda in between. (Lernt all that in public school!)
Alternatively, global warming might be affecting everywhere on Earth--except--Oswego, NY.
Nah, somebody just managed to snap a picture of Hillary naked and unshaven.
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