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Winter 2015 - boom or snow job?

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bigmrg74 said:
Speaking of Lake Effect, that effect is drying up right now with the Great Lakes mostly ice covered now.

http://www.mlive.com/weather/index.ssf/2015/02/great_lakes_ice_cover_may_set.html
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I like watching these maps, Lake Superior is looking at back-to-back "fifty year events" with ice floes well into June.
Killing the lake effect for a few months also retains water that is normally lost, we're going to get near record depths this summer and you'll be hearing a lot more news about erosion.
The satellite pics are fun too (click on a lake).
 
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This February will be the coldest month here since they started keeping track 110 years ago.
 
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JF_Gophers said:
I hope this cold weather is good for the ice caps. Reverse the effects of global warming!
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Actually, everywhere but the eastern half of the United States, Siberia, the Himalayas and the Australian Outback is recording above average temperatures. When my mom flew out to CA she had a layover in Denver and it was 70 degrees. Here is the latest data from January. Check out Africa, Central Europe and China. Alaska and western North America aren't a pretty sight either.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/service/global/map-blended-mntp/201501.gif
 
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Priceless said:
Actually, everywhere but the eastern half of the United States, Siberia, the Himalayas and the Australian Outback is recording above average temperatures. When my mom flew out to CA she had a layover in Denver and it was 70 degrees. Here is the latest data from January. Check out Africa, Central Europe and China. Alaska and western North America aren't a pretty sight either.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/service/global/map-blended-mntp/201501.gif
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On the east coast, colder than normal air right next to warmer than normal ocean surface. That almost sounds like a recipe for snow...
 
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geezer said:
I like watching these maps, Lake Superior is looking at back-to-back "fifty year events" with ice floes well into June.
Killing the lake effect for a few months also retains water that is normally lost, we're going to get near record depths this summer and you'll be hearing a lot more news about erosion.
The satellite pics are fun too (click on a lake).
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Yeah, I was over in Holland lasts April and it was pretty trippy to go down to the shore and see of the ice flows all stacked up on the shoreline and beach there. Looked like something you would see on National Geographic. About expected to see a seal or a walrus pop up and haul itself up onto an ice flow to rest.
 
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Another 3 to 6 inches(or 4 to 8, depending) tonight, yea for the coldest and snowiest month ever in Maine
 
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Another night of single digits in NoVa. The pond next to my work can now support skating for only about the sixth time in the last decade and a half.
 
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Priceless said:
We only got 2. Not even enough to snow blow. Nice little fender-bender up in Etna though.
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yeah 40 vehicles, some of which are completely trashed. I'm surprised no one got killed. That stretch of road has claimed a lot of metal this winter
 
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I'm trying to think of something that my parents used to have, where you could sit on it, and someone could skate behind you and push you around. They almost looked like a bare bones dog sled kind of thing, but to use on ice. What are those things called?
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
I'm trying to think of something that my parents used to have, where you could sit on it, and someone could skate behind you and push you around. They almost looked like a bare bones dog sled kind of thing, but to use on ice. What are those things called?
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An Adamson's Skating Device?

Aka... a chair?

This winter just doesn't seem as bad as last year. I don't know if it's because there's not as much snow (at least in mid-Michigan), but I don't feel as cold as last year and never would have guessed for a second this year was colder.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:

An Adamson's Skating Device?

Aka... a chair?

This winter just doesn't seem as bad as last year. I don't know if it's because there's not as much snow (at least in mid-Michigan), but I don't feel as cold as last year and never would have guessed for a second this year was colder.
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My mom was saying that in Northern NY, the average temperature for Feb was 1.9° as of the other day, with just about every night below zero.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:

An Adamson's Skating Device?

Aka... a chair?

This winter just doesn't seem as bad as last year. I don't know if it's because there's not as much snow (at least in mid-Michigan), but I don't feel as cold as last year and never would have guessed for a second this year was colder.
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I disagree. Last year we got smoked right after New Year's, and had maybe a week where it was -5 to -10 at night, and that was really it, as far as bitter cold. We're going on three weeks right now where we're going below zero at night most nights. It should finally break on Saturday, but to me this one tops any we've had in about 20 years. The winter of '93-94 while I was at Ferris was worse, but that's the only one that comes to mind.
 
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Last year the twin Cities got it bad. Lots of snow. Record-breaking cold. The whole package.
 
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