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Lake Superior nearing rare ice-over
Pioneer Press ^
| 2-7-14
| John Myers
Posted on 02/07/2014 5:01:55 AM PST by TurboZamboni
DULUTH, Minn. -- A frigid winter is pushing Lake Superior toward a complete ice-over for the first time since 1996, though there's still a ways to go before you can skate from Duluth to the Soo Locks.
Lake Superior had at least some ice across an estimated 91 percent of its surface as of Thursday, according to the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory.
That compares with the 40-year average annual Lake Superior ice coverage for February of just 30 percent.
George Leshkevich has been tracking Great Lakes ice for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory since 1973. He's seen all kinds of winters over those 41 years, and all sorts of ice cover.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climate; cold; duluth; frozen; globalcooling; ice; manbearpig; warming
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To: Lakeshark
The Farmer’s Almanac is predicting this kind of cold to last well into March.
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02/07/2014 8:48:48 AM PST
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cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: cripplecreek
I've always loved winter up here since snow generally stays and is actually white all winter, this is the first time it's actually got me a bit scared. The wind, the cold, the amount of snow causing drifts and lots of white outs is almost a daily occurrence. A week ago I was driving through a virtual tunnel, an 8 foot drift had taken over one half of the main road I was driving on, with a four foot drift on the other side. I'm going 2 miles an hour because I can't see five feet in front of my car, just hoping no one is coming from the other direction. That happened several times as I was driving, the single lane drift tunnels lasting for over many hundreds of yards with no visibility.
Freak stuff. No one up here has seen anything quite like this, I've even spoken to people that have been here since the early 1940's.
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posted on
02/07/2014 8:57:29 AM PST
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Lakeshark
(Mr Reid, tear down this law!)
To: Lakeshark
In my little town even the road surface is pretty clean packed snow. It hasn’t been able to melt into slush so it’s stayed pretty clean.
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posted on
02/07/2014 9:04:47 AM PST
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cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: cripplecreek
With the wind relenting last week, we can see the road occasionally here and there for the first time in a while.
This is going to get dicey when it finally starts to melt.
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02/07/2014 9:08:51 AM PST
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Lakeshark
(Mr Reid, tear down this law!)
To: ThunderSleeps
It is starting to look like a mental disorder. For all the millions of believers on this Earth it truly is a mental disorder. For those that are behind it, AGW has become the largest money scam in the history of the world! Period.
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02/07/2014 10:58:20 AM PST
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houeto
(We intend to liberate Democrats from job-lock this November!)
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