ExiledInIllinois Posted March 22, 2014 Posted March 22, 2014 (edited) It is the winter from hell (oxymoron... LoL): http://www.accuweath...ucks-b/24590501 http://www.weather.c...opulation-45680 Yesterday it was still @ 74%. Lake Ontario and Michigan are the only ones helping these abysmal numbers for the first full day of spring! http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/data/ice/ http://coastwatch.gl...2/glsea_cur.png Edited March 22, 2014 by ExiledInIllinois
ExiledInIllinois Posted March 24, 2014 Posted March 24, 2014 (edited) http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/metdata/ Here are some interesting webcam shots from around the middle Lakes... As we approach the 1st of April in a week... Edited March 24, 2014 by ExiledInIllinois
Gary M Posted March 26, 2014 Posted March 26, 2014 Man has everything to do with it. No we don't Venus suffers from a 'runaway' greenhouse effect, and perfectly illustrates the heat trapping effect of CO2. The Earth is not about to suffer the same fate as Venus, but certainly, the temperature will tweak ever upwards as we continue to dump *billions* of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year. Nope http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2013/03/06/as-carbon-dioxide-levels-continue-to-rise-global-temperatures-are-not-following-suit/
Canadian Bills Fan Posted March 27, 2014 Posted March 27, 2014 No, no, get with the times. Global WarmingTM now causes harsh winters with lots of snow, as compared to ten years ago when it caused mild winters with no snow. Soooo hard to keep up! Funny how we havent heard a peep from Al Gore this winter CBF
ExiledInIllinois Posted March 27, 2014 Posted March 27, 2014 Soooo hard to keep up! Funny how we havent heard a peep from Al Gore this winter CBF It is interesting to see what this winter does and how the last ice will shake out. It isn't uncommon to see Superior have last ice well into May. BUT, we are a few days away from April 1st and the ice is still pretty much covering 70% of The Lakes. They have the monthly graphs from 2009-Now, it would be interesting to see the monthly ice concentration graph from say 1979... I still haven't found it. I would like to see where we are in regard to that year. I can piece it together w/the last ice color charts, but that covers greater than %'s. We are collecting more data now, I wonder if it even existed back then... It had to?
ExiledInIllinois Posted March 27, 2014 Posted March 27, 2014 http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/data/ice/atlas/ice_duration/last_ice_grids/lst10/index.html I did find this @ the Great Lakes Ice Atlas... Pretty cool. Here is last ice concentration (+=10%):
ExiledInIllinois Posted March 29, 2014 Posted March 29, 2014 I found the ice charts in the Great Lakes Ice Atlas. http://www.glerl.noa...arts/index.html To put this winter into perspective with the hardest winter in the last 41 one years, 1979... This data is pretty revealing. Today March 28, 2014, we have 71.1% ice coverage: http://www.glerl.noa...ce&type=N&hr=00 In 1979... That 70% coverage was somewhere between March 12, 1979 and March 19, 1979: 79.49%: http://www.glerl.noa...79mar12_jpg.htm 59.87%: http://www.glerl.noa...79mar19_jpg.htm This winter puts us a good 10 days ahead of 1979.
ExiledInIllinois Posted June 19, 2014 Posted June 19, 2014 http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5483993 It took till June. I wonder how it would have been without the 2,000 hours cutting ice? Would it have lasted till July?
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