Great Lakes ice cover may set record this week with two more arctic blasts

MLive.Com ^ | February 23, 2015 | Mark Torregrossa

[PJ-Comix]

Two more very cold arctic blasts are going to hit Michigan this week. Conditions may be right late in the week for rapid ice making on the Great Lakes.

This makes me think we could make a run at record ice cover on the Great Lakes by this coming weekend.

As of Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015, the total Great Lakes ice cover was 84.4 percent. Record total ice cover on the Great Lakes is 94.7 percent, set in 1979.

[The Free Engineer]

They are but only because A) People can’t get there because of too much snow and B) It is too damn cold to ski.

[West Texas Chuck]

Buddy of mine in DC is already squealing about how The Warming has caused their miseries this winter. It makes sense to him, somehow.

And told me that I will have no water to drink in a few years, no food to eat. Wait, wut? If it gets warmer all that ice up nawth will melt, right, but we won’t be able to drank it? And I figgered warmer weather would make more plants, and more delicious animules to munch on.

Damn idjits, the stoopid, it hurts.

[spokeshave]

In March 2000, for example, “senior research scientist” David Viner, working at the time for the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, told the U.K. Independent that within “a few years,” snowfall would become “a very rare and exciting event” in Britain. “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he was quoted as claiming in the article, headlined “Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past.”

Ha....according to UK reports the extreme cold is also in UK....with winter expected to last till May.

[SandRat]

ahiver and shake

Previous record low temperatures were shattered in many Michigan cities this morning.

In fact one Michigan city was only five degrees warmer than the North Pole this morning. Roscommon, MI dropped to -39° this morning. At the same time the North Pole was -44°.

At 8 a.m. this morning, the coldest temperatures were almost 40 below zero, and the warmest temperature was 2 degrees. But the average temperature for the entire state of Michigan at 8 a.m. was 18.5 degrees below zero, according to statistics derived by weatherbell.com. That makes Michigan easily the coldest state in the country this morning.

Here are some low temperatures in our area:
Detroit -12° New record
Flint -25° New record
Saginaw/Bay City -15° New record
Lansing -16°
Ann Arbor -30° Unverified, but likely new record
Grand Rapids -13° Tied old record
Muskegon -9°
Kalamazoo -15° New record
Jackson -19° New record

The coldest locations were Roscommon at -39° and Leota in Clare County at -37°.

[tinyowl]

This proves that the reason it’s so cold is that all the global warming stored in the oceans is in lakes being sealed shut by the ice. If the ice ever melts, then all the tornados and hurricanes times one million will arise from the earth and kill all the people who didn’t believe in them, and then everyone will finally love each other.

[Rodamala]

Imagine how cold it would be without all the Global Warming?

This cold?:

No, I don't live in North Dakota or Alaska... this was back on February 16 here in Northwest Pennsylvania, and is the coldest temperature I have ever seen in my whole life... as I write this it is -16°F. This morning was a BALMY -6°.

Pensyl-effin-vania. I am running out of effing firewood from all this -33, -18, -28 degree crap every night.

[Bubba_Leroy]

Cold weather is caused by Global Warming.

[HereInTheHeartland]

So why doesn’t anyone follow up with those wackos and hold them accountable for their predictions?

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[PA Engineer]

They just keep getting it so wrong. The forecasts seem to be a narrative for the record. -9 and still dropping in w. pa.

AccuWeather predicted 0 and warming after 11. Then -3 and warming after 2. I'm just shaking my head.

Their narrative over reality at all costs.

[kiryandil]

Well, the global warming cult are saying this is turning out to be one of the warmest winters on record.

...the global warming Gruber Warming cult...

Fixed it for ya. :)

[kiryandil]

This proves that the reason it’s so cold is that all the global warming stored in the oceans is in lakes being sealed shut by the ice. If the ice ever melts, then all the tornados and hurricanes times one million will arise from the earth and kill all the people who didn’t believe in them, and then everyone will finally love each other.

From the movie National Treasure:

"Snorkel. Albuquerque. See, I can do it, too."

[kiryandil]

So why doesn’t anyone follow up with those wackos and hold them accountable for their predictions?

Because they own the media, and the schools, and they have all sides of the bet covered.

If it's hot, it's Gruber Warming.

If it's cold, it's Gruber Warming.

If it doesn't do anything, it's Gruber Warming.

[PJ-Comix]

You actually got your car engine started at -33 degrees?

[Rodamala]

You actually got your car engine started at -33 degrees?

A 5.9L Cummins Diesel, at that. I let the manifold preheater cycle fully and let 'er rip. Sounds fairly agricultural for the first 15 seconds.

[Rodamala]

Oh, and it was -26 (again) this morning... it’s really getting OLD. I have so much mothereffin snow I can’t get into my timberlot and snag some slabwood to cut up for firewood... and the tractor won’t start... and I am down to my last facecord of wood... with no other method of heating the farmhouse.

[Rodamala]

That kinda rocks if A2 saw -30 degrees... the den of liberal nitwittedness that Ann Arbor is, maybe all this Global WarmingAnthropogenic Climate Change, will make these bastards wish that the Earth actually was 1 degree warmer in the past 100 years.

[Rodamala]

This morning I can barely read the thermometer in the kitchen window because the red spirits in the glass tube are so low they are nearly off the scale. -20something F. All the pipes are frozen this morning because I didn't stay up all night heaving wood into the furnace. I guess after I get a little bit of heat into the house, I will go fire up the truck and see what it says... I really just don't feel like dealing with this right now...

Oops forgot to update. It was minus 26 degrees this morning and now a very warm 16 above... and water runs in the kitchen sink.

[Lurker]

Welcome to The Hawk.

L

[eyedigress]

Here is a fun MOONBAT article from 15 years ago.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html