Superior on way to freezing over

[Hamilton Reef]

Ice cap: Superior on way to freezing over
Lakes Huron and Erie are ice-covered

http://www.record-eagle.com/2003/mar/06superi.htm

[Robert W. McCoy Jr]

Thats what I call Butt cold.

I've had enough:rolleyes:

Common SUN:D

[WILDCATWICK]

It has been one of the colder winters that I can recall but I seriously question the validity of this story and here is why. Headling states that Lake Huron is covered over. I live on Lake Huron and travel along it. It is by no mean s covered. I lived seven years in Marquette on Lake Supperior. While I lived there we had a year with even colder weather. The Lake only freazes up to a mile or two from the shore line. That water is too rough to "freeze over". I don't doubt that there has been times in history when it has but I seriously doubt this article.

I do rember a time about 28 years ago when the St. Clair river actualy froze over and we would skate on it. Those days are long gone.

[hypox]

I was up in Au Train just west of munising about a month ago. Lake Superior was froze as far as you could see thru binoculars. I wouldn't doubt at all that it is close to froze

[SteelEd]

I doubt Lake Superior is that frozen too. :rolleyes:
I was just on the weather channel website and the radar showed lake effect snow bands coming off Lake Superior near Whitefish Point. This would not be happening if the lake was frozen. Lake effect snow means open water. I wouldn't doubt that the lake is quite frozen, however. This has been a very cold winter.

Just my $.02.

Ed

[captdenny]

On the positive side, it will help reduce evaportation. Just maybe our lakes water level will be helped by this freezing. It was around "79" when the freeze like took place. It has been butt cold. Fish-on

[MSUICEMAN]

at the very least this should bring up water levels a little bit. THe fact that it is at least froze up quite a bit, means the evaporation is lower and with all the snow that we have gotten this year, all that water couldn't have come from our own lakes (thanks somewhere else). maybe now "my" beach area on lake huron won't look like the sahara desert.

Steve

[ET]

For you non believers

http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/500/1242lakesup.jpg

[YPSIFLY]

Sweet pic ET! Where did you find it? I'm wondering what Lk. Erie looks like.

[Dave Simmons]

ET,

Damn, that's a BIG ice cube!!!:eek: :p

[ET]

Here is the link for the US visible satellite.

http://www.wunderground.com/satellite/vis/1k/US.html

click on the map and it will zoom in on the area.

Lake Erie is almost completely frozen except for an area on the northern shore.

[Steve]

It's not clear to me what is clouds and what is ice however. If you look over at the atlantic east coast if looks as "frozen over" as some of the great lakes do. Coulndn't some of what looks like ice actually be lake effect moisture?

[Ed Michrina]

Cool photo Et. Froze or not it looks but cold.

[COHO]

you guys want to see ice conditions, check this site. i think it comes from the coast guard and is updated daily. it is long but this is what my comp. says. http://140.90.54.35/pub/great_lakes/5_lake_composite/east_composite?current.jpg i dont think caps. are important but dont leave spaces.

[northern_outdoorsman]

There was an article in the detroit news a week or so ago that had a Map of Ice Cover on great lakes...I will see if I can find it online or Scan it when I get home if I still have it...Superior was mentioned as 80 or 90 percent froze over if my memory serves me right...

[northern_outdoorsman]

If anyone can figure this out it maight show ya...

http://coastwatch.glerl.noaa.gov/cwdata/lct/glsea.gif

http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/539/1624glsea.gif

[Happy Jack]

Oakland Press on Thur.- Ice threatens to cover Lake Superior. According to the National Ice Center in Washington,didn't know such a thing existed,Superior is over 90% covered. Last froze completely in 1979, and this years ice cover is the most since 1996-97.

[Happy Jack]

Ya know I just got to thinking about this NIC in Wash. Since it is a goverment agency 90% covered could be completly. I wonder what these people do in the summer?

[Can't Touch This]

COHO, what do the letters mean??? It says like 9+ for everyone, and like 3 for the others on the top space, does it mean 9+ inches??? Because, it says all of lake erei is covered with 9+ inches.