Heavy Snow Continues to Bury N.Y. County(8FT/WK: So much for "global warming!")

nypost.com ^ | Feb 10,2007 7:23 AM EST | WILLIAM KATES

[kellynla]

MEXICO, N.Y. (AP) -- Ray DeLong took advantage of a break from the snow to use a blower to forge a path to his driveway as two contractors pushed streams of snow from the roof of his home. The brief reprieve Friday ended early Saturday as snow fell at a rate of 2 to 3 inches per hour, further burying a region already tested by nearly record snowfalls.

"Have to move fast. Want to at least get it off my roof," DeLong said, just hours before more flakes began to fall.

More than a week of bitter cold and slippery roads have contributed to at least 20 deaths across the northern quarter of the nation - five in Ohio, four in Illinois, four in Indiana, two in Kentucky, two in Michigan, and one each in Wisconsin, New York and Maryland, authorities said. No deaths were reported in Oswego County, where Mexico is located, however.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Good reference....and another one:

Not by Fire but by Ice
THE NEXT ICE AGE - NOW!

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I spent one winter up there,...shoveled my driveway twice a day,,,left before seeing a really bad winter ,...

[Nik Naym]

The Great lakes DO NOT freeze. ONLY lake Erie freezes, and only sometimes, and generally only the eastern end.

[Right Wing Assault]

All you need is cold wind across the open water.

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.

[VOA]

global warming, my rather large derriere! bump!

[Right Wing Assault]

The Great lakes DO NOT freeze. ONLY lake Erie freezes, and only sometimes, and generally only the eastern end.

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

[Right Wing Assault]

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."

[Right Wing Assault]

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."

[Libloather]

ALGORE CALL YOUR OFFICE! WE'RE HAVING A SLIGHT PROBLEM WITH YOUR THEORY!

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.

[kellynla]

You should email those pix to Al Bore. LOL

[stockpirate]

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.

[RetiredArmy]

Oh, the global warming nut cases on the Weather Channel now say that global warming is responsible for all the snow. These are the same idiots who say the earth is going to burn up in 1,000 years, but in the past four days, FOUR days, they have changed our 10-day forecast 12 times. Today's high was changed 4 times through out the day. Started this a.m. at 54, then 52, then 48 and finally 45, which is what it was when they decided to predict it. At one point yesterday they had rain for us Tuesday through Friday next week. That has now come down to just Tuesday. With these idiots, it changes on the hour. Stay tuned for the next global warming warning!!!

[kellynla]

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

[Calpernia]

Thanks Mayor. I originally misunderstood ;)

[Nik Naym]

And when was the last time Lake Ontario froze over? This is the one causing all the "global warming induced snow" right now.

[Right Wing Assault]

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.

[MurryMom]

The glaciers have returned to NY State?

[Libloather]

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!)

[Pharmboy]

Alternatively, global warming might be affecting everywhere on Earth--except--Oswego, NY.

[DaBroasta]

... I hear the woolly mammoth is making a comeback!

Nah, somebody just managed to snap a picture of Hillary naked and unshaven.