Thick ice is not good ice. Even thick ice can become ice that will break up on you if it experiences warm conditions for a while. Therefore, right now in much of Minnesota, NONE OF THE ICE IS SAFE. None of it.
Here is the rule: If you get two days above freezing, it takes two days below freezing (all day) to "reset" the ice. We are, at this point, beyond any possibility of that happening. The part of the year where you drive your pickup around on the ice ... is over. We don't need your stinking environmental hazard when you go through.
The previous message was applicable only to people in Minnesota. Thank you very much. That is all.
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The good folks at the National Snow and Ice Data Center summarize the season in the Arctic Ocean. Turns out that the weather conditions that helped make 2007 a record for low sea-ice extent didn't recur.
Time to start watching the Arctic Sea Ice breakup. This happens every year, but as you know, the total amount of ice left each summer has been reducing, and the "old ice" which forms a basis for the arctic ice refreeze is disappearing.
"Convection in the Antarctic Ice Sheet Leading to a Surge of the Ice Sheet and Possibly to a New Ice Age" is a 1970's Science paper by Hughes.
What do you think of ice cream? How do you feel when you miss having your very own ice cream sundae? Well, I missed having a sundae today so I am feeling sad!
I've been telling people that for years, but they still insist on putting it in drinks.
I assure you, it's quite applicable in Arizona -- and has been for as long as I can remember.
Actually I heard you can see the face of Jesus in the ice at the middle of the nearest lake.
Lorax: ROFL!!!! You have such a bad attitude.
DC: Well, the part about several days below freezing followed by above freezing followed by below freezing.
This sometimes applies to Ohio.
Greg, I assure you that it does sometimes get below freezing in Arizona. We just don't get reliable ice on the lakes, even when it does.
And, yes, every few years we end up fishing some idiot out of Lake Ono after s/he sleds right onto it. Come to think of it, this would have been a perfect year for it.
They still run "When will the old clunker of a car fall through the ice?" pools up there in MinnieSota? Or has the EPA cracked down on sinking auto carcasses in Mille Lacs?
This applies to Wisconsin!
Good One D.C. Sessions