Will the Great Lakes Freeze Over Before They Begin to Thaw?
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Re: Will the Great Lakes Freeze Over Before They Begin to Thaw?
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Re: Will the Great Lakes Freeze Over Before They Begin to Thaw?
cycloneye wrote:Dr Jeff Masters has a good discussion about this.
Interesting.
So lower water levels of the lakes had impacts on shipping. I wonder if the frozen lakes had any impacts on shipping? It will also be interesting to see what this years average water temperature will be, since a great deal has been made about the warming of the lakes. Will this be a temperature reset, or just a blip?
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Lake Michigan's ice cover has set a record.
The federal government's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor reports that ice spread across 93.29 percent of the lake's surface area on Saturday. That eclipsed the previous high of 93.1 percent in 1977.
http://www.freep.com/article/20140311/N ... ver-record
The overall 5-lake total of 92.2% stands in second place though.
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As of 2/19, 80.9% compared to 80.3% at this time last year.
http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/glcfs/compare_years/
As of 2/20, 84%
http://coastwatch.glerl.noaa.gov/glsea/ ... ea_cur.png
http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/glcfs/compare_years/
As of 2/20, 84%
http://coastwatch.glerl.noaa.gov/glsea/ ... ea_cur.png
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Historic
WeatherGuesser wrote:2/23/15; 85.6%
Forecast is for very cold air the next few days.
Comparison:
2/23/14; 61.9%
2/23/13; 78.6%
This is INSANE. Lake Ontario "the lake that never freezes" for the first time on record has no area of measurable water temperatures but its not exactly uniform. Lake Michigan closing in fast too. If it was at the medium % that counts as general %, we would be over 95% ice coverage by now. Hoping for some massive jumps in that if the ice coverage increases and winds don't screw it up again.
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WeatherGuesser wrote:Down to 84.1% again.
Winds must be playing games.
The winds aren't even that high and we have this. Why I hate winter or ice coverage tracking, because of stupid stuff like that. Nothing is straightforward and exciting until something unexpected shows up.
On a bright note, last one shows 88.8% which is the highest of the winter so far.
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