Ice Expert Predicts Lake Superior Will Completely Freeze Over This Winter

Ice Expert Predicts Lake Superior Will Completely Freeze Over This Winter (Paging Algore....)​

By Barbara Hollingsworth
February 11, 2014
(CNSNews.com) – Lake Superior hasn’t completely frozen over in two decades.

But an expert on Great Lakes ice says there’s a “very high likelihood” that the three-quadrillion-gallon lake will soon be totally covered with ice thanks to this winter’s record-breaking cold.

The ice cover on the largest freshwater lake in the world hit a 20-year record of 91 percent on Feb. 5, 1994.

Jay Austin, associate professor at the Large Lakes Observatory in Duluth, Minn., told CNSNews.com that he expects that record will be broken this winter when the most northern of the Great Lakes becomes totally shrouded in ice.

The thickness of the ice on Lake Superior “varies tremendously,” from a very thin sheet in some areas near the coast to several feet thick in other spots, Austin says. The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports that the mean thickness of the lake ice is 26 cm, or a little over 10 inches.

Austin attributes the large amount of ice on the lake to the “extraordinary cold winter we’ve had,” pointing out that Duluth recently experienced an all-time record of 23 straight days of below-zero temperatures.

The previous record of 22 days was set in 1936 and tied in 1963, according to the National Weather Service.

Austin, who studies the effect of lake ice, predicts that it will have a “very strong influence” on the regional climate this summer, with the “air conditioning [lake] effect” more pronounced than usual.

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But why don't we talk about Global warming and how warm it is, while the Pacific El Nino cools and the Atlantic conveyor warm waters go north. In other words Al Bore and the rest of those Global warmers including Oblamer should stop smoking wacky weed and not fool with mother nature.

 

Perhaps....you might spend a few hours trying to understand the effects of climate, and the variations it entails. The complexity of seasonal impact, as well as a shifting Jetstream in our hemisphere have forced the usual polar air masses south....just as it did for Europe last year. Meanwhile, summer in the opposite hemisphere is unusually warm, if not dangerous.

These rather ignorant, uninformed, and pathetic attack threads serve very little purpose, and paint the individual creating them in a foolish light.

It's a good Idea to actually know what you are talking about, BEFORE opening your mouth.

 

Taxcutter says:
Give it a rest dude.

It's fairly obvious. Warmers don't believe anything the deniers say and the Deniers return the complement.

AGW is a sideshow in the larger battle of political tribes in the US.

Warmers are part of the Big Government tribe which generally favors more government spending, taxation, regulation and intrusion into the day-to-day life of ordinary people (banning incandescent light bulbs, efficient refrigerants, vented gas cans, one-flush toilets that don't cost $800, etc), government controlled education, and government control of the economy.

AGW skeptics are mostly part of the Small Government tribe which has the diametrically opposed worldview of the Big Government tribe.

Re: Post #2
You have a right to express your arrogance, but just remember, many people feel the same about you.

 

just me but I liked the warm winters during the 90's and 2000's a lot more than I have the last few. This year is reminding me of the 60's and 70's when they were talking impending ice age. Someone stole my global warming and I miss it, if you see it send it home

 

Great Lakes having a long shot at record freeze-over is pretty interesting, but let's be fair - the long term trend of Great Lakes freezing seems to be down.



I'd say it's too small an area to be indicative of much by itself.

 

Our river had surface freezing for the first time I can ever recall this winter, though some of the really old people when I was a kid remembered ice skating on it when they were kids, so the "this cold weather is caused by global warming" just doesn't quite cut it for me.