Woody
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I gotta go plow the driveway...haven't went outside yet but looks like about 14-16"...
Great Lakes Ice Update.
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Carver370
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I just got in from being on the lake in New Buffalo
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Still a lot of ice hanging around on the big lake. We are still getting out 2 miles from the National Lakeshore ice fishing the Lake Trout.
Here is a photo a friend just sent me showing ships being ice-breaker escorted out of Whitefish Bay heading to the West side of the lake.
Taken the morning of 4/17.
Here is a photo a friend just sent me showing ships being ice-breaker escorted out of Whitefish Bay heading to the West side of the lake.
Taken the morning of 4/17.
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I just got in from being on the lake in New Buffalo
We will launch soon and need to run on Lake Michigan to align the new radar, auto pilot, etc. I'm still wondering about ice off of Grand Haven although none is visible from shore. Did you see any floating ice bergs down your way?
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Nothing at all down here, I was on and off the lake all weekend. Brought a boat down from St Joe as well.
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I'm in at Whitehall but won't hit the big lake for a few weeks .
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They are moving so that is a good sign. I do think we will wait - fiberglass & ice - not a good mix.
Hey Paul,
This is Bill from the Yacht Club. I happened to be on the CSR site tonight checking out other threads than my 370 and came across your posting and the very cool site you have. Would it be possible for me to add your web site link to the Yacht Clubs website so people can stay up to date on the weather etc. You can email with any response to my normal email address you have.
Thanks,
Bill (AKA TheWolfTc)
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Hi Bill, absolutely you can add a link. Sharing the weather data with everyone is a primary goal.
We just added more Lake Michigan near shore forecasts and will be adding Lake Huron next (these are drop down menus). We have more Marine Weather data in the works and soon to be posted.
www.lakecityweather.org
The weather data it self comes from our weather station and then we pull data from the National Weather Service. As you can see it has been a long winter here.
We are working on a "mobile" version now too.
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We just added more Lake Michigan near shore forecasts and will be adding Lake Huron next (these are drop down menus). We have more Marine Weather data in the works and soon to be posted.
www.lakecityweather.org
The weather data it self comes from our weather station and then we pull data from the National Weather Service. As you can see it has been a long winter here.
We are working on a "mobile" version now too.
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Paul , you need to beam down to me all that you have , I need accurate wave heights real time , and don't listen to Noah they are wrong 98% of the time , Whitehall Paul I'll link it it to Ambiances travels blog and my iPhone ......
BTW how's Kathy???
Boltman
BTW how's Kathy???
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Woody
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It snowed about 2" last nite:smt089...I won't post any pics 'cause y'all know what it looks like
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Ice is finally breaking up in Southern Georgian Bay area.
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They did another fly-over yesterday....less than 250 sq mi of ice left in the eastern basin of Lake Erie. They were to start removal of the boom today but it was delayed because of high winds. So...it should start tomorrow, 4 or 5 days from now, we should be pretty much ice free. I will tell the yard manager to bring it out of the building next week, one more coat of wax and splash. We should be in by may 15th, the day our marina opens.
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19 percent of the lakes still have ice cover...mostly Lake Superior and Huron. East of Superiors Keweenaw peninsula mostly ice and Keweenaw waterway still not opened up. Winds are clearing off the lake on the west side of the peninsula...this is a pic looking NW toward Canada. As I'm typing this I'm looking out the window and it's snowing heavy.View attachment 35234
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I'm right there with you. Just payed for the slip this year which is open May 1, but as you can see in this May 4 photo (looking east), I think we are a few weeks out yet.
Munising Bay is still frozen in and like you said a bunch of ice still floating around in the big water. We are currently getting new canvas made so I'm good with it for now.
Munising Bay is still frozen in and like you said a bunch of ice still floating around in the big water. We are currently getting new canvas made so I'm good with it for now.
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Still COLD...
"CHICAGO (CBS) — In the aftermath of one of the coldest winters on record, 19 percent of the Great Lakes are still covered in ice.
As of Sunday. much of the ice cover is on Lake Superior and Lake Huron.
The northern part of Lake Michigan also has ice.
Typically, by mid April, only about 3 percent of the Great Lakes are on ice.
Lake Michigan set a new record for ice coverage in March.
The National Weather Service said the cold start to March caused ice levels on the lake to increase quickly, pushing ice coverage to 93.29 percent.
That broke the record of 93.1 percent set in 1977.
At its peak, the five Great Lakes were about 92 percent covered in ice in early March.
The brutal winter and chilly spring are also keeping Lake Michigan’s waters cold.
Monday’s water temperature in Chicago was 53 degrees.
Over in Michigan City, Ind., it was only 45 degrees.
That would rule out a comfortable lake swim any time in the next few weeks."
"CHICAGO (CBS) — In the aftermath of one of the coldest winters on record, 19 percent of the Great Lakes are still covered in ice.
As of Sunday. much of the ice cover is on Lake Superior and Lake Huron.
The northern part of Lake Michigan also has ice.
Typically, by mid April, only about 3 percent of the Great Lakes are on ice.
Lake Michigan set a new record for ice coverage in March.
The National Weather Service said the cold start to March caused ice levels on the lake to increase quickly, pushing ice coverage to 93.29 percent.
That broke the record of 93.1 percent set in 1977.
At its peak, the five Great Lakes were about 92 percent covered in ice in early March.
The brutal winter and chilly spring are also keeping Lake Michigan’s waters cold.
Monday’s water temperature in Chicago was 53 degrees.
Over in Michigan City, Ind., it was only 45 degrees.
That would rule out a comfortable lake swim any time in the next few weeks."
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From Detroit:
"The Winter of 2013-14 demands that it be remembered.
A relatively cool spring will give way to a colder-than-usual summer locally, all because of the continuing impacts of the intensely frigid, snowy winter, scientists said. And at least one Great Lakes ice researcher thinks that the domino effect could continue into a chilly fall and an early start to next winter — and beyond."
"The remaining levels of ice cover are amazing, said Jia Wang, an ice climatologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor.
“This prolonged winter will affect summer temperatures. This summer will be cold, and then a cooler fall,” he said."
"In addition to wreaking havoc on the Great Lakes shipping industry and impacting fish and other aquatic species, the miles of ice cover serve as a vast, white reflector.
“All that sunlight that would normally heat up the water is just bouncing back up into space,” said Jay Austin, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota-Duluth’s Large Lakes Observatory, who agrees with Wang about the ice cover’s impacts on this summer, but disagrees about its potential impacts on weather beyond that."
"And though the impact of Great Lakes water temperatures on local weather is complex, “the two are connected to some degree,” said Steve Colman, director of the Large Lakes Observatory.
“It’s going to tend to be cooler,” he said. “We’ll likely get more fog because of colder water temperatures and warmer air masses.”
"Winter’s impact on the Great Lakes will lead to winners and losers in Great Lakes fish species, said Randy Claramunt, Great Lakes research biologist at the state Department of Natural Resources’ Charlevoix Fisheries Research Station.
“Some of the native species — such as lake whitefish — we’ve found cold winters and a long duration of ice cover can actually have a positive impact,” he said.
The fish spawn on near-shore, shallow, rocky reefs in the fall, and their eggs incubate all winter long, Claramunt said. Ice cover tends to keep the eggs safe from predators, he said.
Losers can include nonnative, invasive species that aren’t used to such cold, harsh climates, such as the round goby and quagga mussels, he said. But “it would take decades of long winters like this to eradicate them,” he said.
Biologists will be watching for potential impacts on other species that aren’t native but have been around awhile, such as chinook, steelhead, coho salmon, brown trout and the smelt and alewife fish that feed the predators people fish for, Claramunt said.
“Their populations can still be up or down depending on factors such as how fast it warms up,” he said."
http://www.freep.com/article/20140501/NEWS06/305010053/great-lakes-ice-cover
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"The Winter of 2013-14 demands that it be remembered.
A relatively cool spring will give way to a colder-than-usual summer locally, all because of the continuing impacts of the intensely frigid, snowy winter, scientists said. And at least one Great Lakes ice researcher thinks that the domino effect could continue into a chilly fall and an early start to next winter — and beyond."
"The remaining levels of ice cover are amazing, said Jia Wang, an ice climatologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor.
“This prolonged winter will affect summer temperatures. This summer will be cold, and then a cooler fall,” he said."
"In addition to wreaking havoc on the Great Lakes shipping industry and impacting fish and other aquatic species, the miles of ice cover serve as a vast, white reflector.
“All that sunlight that would normally heat up the water is just bouncing back up into space,” said Jay Austin, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota-Duluth’s Large Lakes Observatory, who agrees with Wang about the ice cover’s impacts on this summer, but disagrees about its potential impacts on weather beyond that."
"And though the impact of Great Lakes water temperatures on local weather is complex, “the two are connected to some degree,” said Steve Colman, director of the Large Lakes Observatory.
“It’s going to tend to be cooler,” he said. “We’ll likely get more fog because of colder water temperatures and warmer air masses.”
"Winter’s impact on the Great Lakes will lead to winners and losers in Great Lakes fish species, said Randy Claramunt, Great Lakes research biologist at the state Department of Natural Resources’ Charlevoix Fisheries Research Station.
“Some of the native species — such as lake whitefish — we’ve found cold winters and a long duration of ice cover can actually have a positive impact,” he said.
The fish spawn on near-shore, shallow, rocky reefs in the fall, and their eggs incubate all winter long, Claramunt said. Ice cover tends to keep the eggs safe from predators, he said.
Losers can include nonnative, invasive species that aren’t used to such cold, harsh climates, such as the round goby and quagga mussels, he said. But “it would take decades of long winters like this to eradicate them,” he said.
Biologists will be watching for potential impacts on other species that aren’t native but have been around awhile, such as chinook, steelhead, coho salmon, brown trout and the smelt and alewife fish that feed the predators people fish for, Claramunt said.
“Their populations can still be up or down depending on factors such as how fast it warms up,” he said."
http://www.freep.com/article/20140501/NEWS06/305010053/great-lakes-ice-cover
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Woody
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Did you notice the two people in the foreground of the pic I posted? The breeze coming in off the lake was cold. They're bundled up, hoods up, sitting around a small fire. They're there to watch the sunset...whatever you get, somehow you got to find a way to enjoy it.:lol:
Gofirstclass
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So, is the ice still heavy in Huron and Superior, or is it working its way out?
