Ice in Great Lakes a danger to ships, coast guard says

60% coverage as opposed to last year`s 30%

A couple cold snaps will do that.

And last year it was GW that resulted in only 30% ?

As the article pointed out, the upside is that there will be much less evaporation. Lake Superior was up a fair bit last year because of the extremely wet summer throughout the basin. Makes navigation easier and the lakers can take on more load, which is good because of the record harvests out west has created a back log.

Don't go confusing 'weather' with 'climate' now.

Ice in the Great Lakes system during the winter? Wow, who'd'a thunk it?

Don't go confusing 'weather' with 'climate' now.
Now if we could just remember this during the summer as well, News Media.

Obvious proof of global warming.

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-J.

Who would have thought ?


But there is a positive to the ice...



Report: Lake Ice Grows Safer To Venture Out On With Each Beer Consumed



According to a report released Monday by researchers at the University of Minnesota, the layer of ice atop frozen lakes grows incrementally thicker and safer to venture out onto with each beer that an individual consumes.

“While the surface ice covering a lake may pose a very real hazard of collapsing under the weight of a sober subject, we discovered that this same ice becomes progressively more sturdy with each 12-ounce can of beer that a subject puts back,” said lead researcher Robert Piper, noting that the ice sheets atop lakes, as well as large ponds and certain rivers, could be rendered virtually impervious to cracking beneath a fully grown man provided he has consumed four or more tallboys, regardless of temperature or weather conditions.

“Our data clearly show that by collectively finishing a 24-pack of Keystone, Budweiser, or similar American-style lager, ice becomes so safe and stable that a whole group of buddies can walk out onto the lake as far as they want.

In fact, you can go ahead and drive a fully loaded truck right on out there, no problem, as long as you and the boys drain a pony keg and the last of the Jack.”

Piper went on to confirm that, even in the highly improbable event that someone who has drunk a sufficient number of beers does happen to fall through the ice, the consumption of such beverages simultaneously heats the frigid subsurface lake water to a temperature at which one can be fully immersed for minutes at a time without any risk of hypothermia.


http://www.theonion.com/articles/report ... ith,35001/

Yeah, it's quite amazing seeing the Detroit River almost completely frozen over. This picture is from a few weeks ago, and it's just as cold today.

WHere are the pictures of hordes of desperate illegal Detroitian immigrants crossing the river?

isn`t that scenario covered under rock and a hard place or frying pan fire?