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Readers have been watching the Nenana Ice Cam via a post here on WUWT this weekend, waiting to see if a new record will be set for the latest ice-out ever. WUWT reader Geoff Shorten in South Africa has been watching and noted that there seems to be a transient lunar effect observed in the camera photos.
Watch the latest here: Nenana Ice Classic – closing in on all time record latest ice-out
UPDATE: see the timelapse video here: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/05/20/timelapse-video-of-nenana-ice-classic-breakup-2013/
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Lol a brown eye for the warmists.
What lunar effect? If there is any, in which direction?
Wait! What’s the criterion? It looks to me like there’s an open channel in the river. Are they waiting for the last bit of ice to be gone from along the shore?
I can presume that the man is the butt of this joke?
If anybody wonders…The black-and-white tripod trips the clock when it shifts on the river bank as the ice melts and starts to move in the current.
http://www.adn.com/2012/05/01/2447662/fairbanks-man-wins-entire-350000.html
Gene Selkov says:
May 20, 2013 at 9:35 am
The moon is rising by the truck …
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You jokers spooked me. I’ve been contemplating an experiment to measure the “lunar effect” on water. I’ve spent all day today designing a gismo to do that. Seriously.
At any rate, I wouldn’t have noticed anything out of the ordinary in this picture. Everything we see is a reconstruction of reality; mine tends to be faulty.
FYI…the “Lunar Effect” is next to the white Tacoma pickup truck….
lower, right hand corner….and appears to be a full moon….
TFF
I’ve looked through a number of pictures and it seems that the channel has opened and closed at least once in the last few days.
Wait? Is that James Hansen?
D.J. Hawkins says:
May 20, 2013 at 9:42 am
mib8 says:
May 20, 2013 at 9:39 am
Wait! What’s the criterion? It looks to me like there’s an open channel in the river. Are they waiting for the last bit of ice to be gone from along the shore?
I’ve looked through a number of pictures and it seems that the channel has opened and closed at least once in the last few days.
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Not to sure about the channel, butt there is a crack.
That crack is looking pretty wide
Obviously an attempted releasing of excessive potent greenhouse gases to speed up the break up!
Such releases are 20 times as deadly as the carbon dioxide in human breath, said 97% of those experiencing the releases right in front of their noses, according to a peer-reviewed study to be discussed soon at SkS.
When the tripod falls in then it is over.
MIB8 Said: “Wait! What’s the criterion? It looks to me like there’s an open channel in the river. Are they waiting for the last bit of ice to be gone from along the shore?”
When the ice was last measured on May 6th the ice was 40″ thick. While the water you see could easily be a channel, it could also be melt-water on top of the remaining ice.
In either case, it’s close to melting out.
Tripod is still there – temperature has risen to 38F (windchill 33F). Clear skies. I say it makes it. Only three hours to go!
mib8 says:
May 20, 2013 at 9:39 am
Wait! What’s the criterion? It looks to me like there’s an open channel in the river. Are they waiting for the last bit of ice to be gone from along the shore?
The big tripod is imbedded in the ice in the channel of the river. The dark patches you see is just puddles on top of the ice. When the ice goes out, it will take the tripod with it, the river has a wicked current this time of year, and you cannot mistake when the ice goes out.
I think it will go today or tomorrow.
That’s probably a guy coming home from the bar and stopped to water the flowers while looking at the half moon resulting in a full moon. Could the added warm water cause the ice to go out sooner? Gosh, this has been fun compared to the “discussions” that sometimes occur. Nice to see every one on the same page. Only 5 more months to ski season in the Northern Hemisphere. Have a great summer. Heading for Klawock, Alaska in a few weeks. Have a friend who just drove a 1928 Model A up there last week, open top, gave him a buffalo robe to keep warm and he already had a beaver coat. Life is good.
Well spotted, Geoff Shorten! South Africans are good at observing this transient lunar effect because we have a whole bunch of ****holes here in our government that want to introduce a ‘Carbon’ tax.
David– I was thinking it may have been Hansen next to the truck too, but the hat is wrong…..
Hansen always wears an Indiana Jones Wannabe hat, and the man is just wearing a regular baseball cap, which doesn’t fit Hansen’s fasion profile…
“David– I was thinking it may have been Hansen next to the truck too, but the hat is wrong….. ”
LOL!! Actually, Hansen was trying to find Alberta, Canada to stop that evil Keystone pipeline, but took a wrong turn in Anchorage…
The people here seeing all three legs of a tripod next to that full moon, obviously must be looking at a much higher resolution pic than I’m seeing.
No, I don’t want to see that version. Seriously.
Latest ice out everrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Unprecedennnnnnnnnted!
Flashy and apparently widely distributed.
NASA gives up on moon-shots, so others went for it.
I posted about it when I saw it last night after a nearly-last-for-the-night refresh.
Glad to see it got posted 🙂
There seems to be a similar transient lunar effect in this webcam snapshot from earlier today:
http://i1363.photobucket.com/albums/r707/ColoradoWellington/NenanaIceClassicWebcam20130520_zps2d7db38f.jpg