Posted on 02/19/2015 3:01:01 AM PST by prisoner6
2/19 - The recent arctic blasts have caused the ice cover on the Great Lakes to increase rapidly. As of Tuesday, Feb. 17, the amount of ice on the Great Lakes is more than the same date last year.
The total ice cover on the Great Lakes is now rated at 82.3 percent as of Tuesday. On the same date last year, the Great Lakes had 81.6 percent total ice cover.
The Great Lakes ice cover has grown over 5 percent in the past 24 hours. That's about 4,750 square miles of ice overnight. At that pace of ice growth, the Great Lakes would be almost totally iced over in the next four days.
The blast of arctic cold tonight through Friday will certainly help ice continue to grow.
The cold will come with a 10 mph to 20 mph wind, which could temporarily break up and reduce some ice. But the light wind days in the next 10 days also look very cold.
Here's how each lake stacks up against last year at this time: Lake Superior 88.8% now - 90.9% last Feb. 17 Lake Michigan 56.9% now - 65.1% last Feb. 17 Lake Huron 91.9% now - 92.7% last Feb. 17 Lake Erie 95.5% now - 95.0% last Feb. 17 Lake Ontario 78.5% now - 31.5% last Feb. 17
Notice the big surge in ice amount on Lake Ontario, which has over double the amount of ice from last year.
The average temperature for the northern lower peninsula of Michigan for January is 17.2° and February 18.4°. So far this year January was 10.6° and February is 4.4°, for a whopping 7.5° average temperature for 2015.
!@#$%^&* global warming.
Near cast a clout till May is out.
Our daughter’s job is to walk dogs for wealthy people in downtown Chicago. Even the dogs hesitate to go out in this kind of cold.
Was just looking at his Twitter feed, JAMSTEC has very cold Atlantic SST, bodes well for cold September-November this year.
” JAMSTEC destroys western ATL warmth, has another cold US winter signal for next year in S-N period! http://t.co/5ILEGsSVrG “
"Coldest temps since the Dustbowl days!"
Then went on to explain that it is because of global warming as the West Coast is warm and the Atlantic Ocean is also warm.
Record cold in the 1930's caused by...um...cold winter weather. Record cold in 2015...GLOBAL WARMING!
Stuck on stupid and totally oblivious to how dumb it sounds.
This proves beyond a doubt that the theory of AGW is absolutely correct.
EVERYTHING proves beyond a doubt that the theory of AGW is absolutely correct.
Today's projected high temp in Central Va = 19oF
What's wrong with this picture? It's warmer in Moscow than in Va? What?
The author must have read my vanity article I posted a couple of days ago!
Will Great Lakes Ice Coverage Beat or Tie Last Year’s Winter Or The Record? [VANITY]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3258661/posts
Today the ice coverage stands at 85.4% which is only 6.8% away from second place. The record is 94.7%.
Warm globally, cool locally!
Joe Bastardi this past Saturday, 14FEB2015.
http://www.weatherbell.com/saturday-summary-february-14-2015
Joe Bastardi’s Twitter account.
https://twitter.com/weatherbell
Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/weatherbellanalytics
We have an 11 year old beagle who runs out and dose her “business” in the exact same spot about one foot off the side of the driveway. Then she runs back in the house.
We have puppies that love the light fluffy snow. They want to stay out there and run around for an hour.
Speaking of Algore, we have LESS than a year before the ENTIRE Earth is cooked.
Rush has the counter on his page, here: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2006/01/27/algore_we_have_ten_years_left_before_earth_cooks
Ryan Maui handles the Weatherbell Twitter account, Joe’s account is @bigjoebastardi.
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