It’s zero today and probably -10 tonight with snow possible. This posting of ice and snow is cruel.
Sunshine Associated with Warm Weather. Now THAT’s a Headline!
I’d go with Ice ‘Dunes’....... LOL
Damn you, Global Warming!!!
Clearly the fault of Global warming
Ice bergs ?
The lake was more extensively frozen over this year — pretty much as far out as you can see — and it stayed around for a lot longer than I have seen it in many years. That’s a good thing, because I understand that the milder winters we’ve had the past few years resulted in less ice and more evaporation, which caused the water to be more shallow in harbor areas, which meant ships had to run with lighter loads.
They’re pretty much gone by now.
I wish I’d known about the icebergs earlier, when I was planning an Eskimo funeral.
Heads up Saugatuck - INCOMING!!
I cries for the polar bears this will strand. :(
It’s 84 here on Maui. Got all the way down to 69 last night. (smile)
I remember a trip from Oklahoma to SC I took in the late 80’s I believe and we crossed the Mississippi river at Memphis. The river was almost clogged with ice. Damndest thing I ever saw. That would be about in the middle of the great warming trend we’re supposed to be in now.
i grew up in Western Michigan in the mid 50’s and I can remember when there were years that Lake Michigan froze from one side to the other in certain areas. My mother would take us out on the Lakes ice, which was a piled up mess of broken ice full of crevices and other places of peril. We never saw any other fools out there, my mother was a very adventurous and full of fun.
Some times we would walk miles to get to the edge of the frozen ice, which was a really neat experience. There would be huge balls of ice floating on the edge that were probably 10- 25 feet in diameter floating among a huge slush of ice chunks.
For a young kid it was pretty scary, I always think back to the big crevasses and what would’ve happened if we fell in one. We never took a rope or safety gear, plus we were in a pretty isolated area back then around Ludington, Michigan.
I do miss hearing the Fog horns on a cool foggy morning though. There’s nothing more errie than a huge fog bank coming at you with high winds and zero visibility sitting in a small row boat out from the shoreline a good bit.
Then we moved to Georgia, where the lakes were full of red clay when we first moved down there. I still enjoy the water, but not nearly as much as I did in Michigan.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)