While ice fishing is still going on in some parts of Minnesota, other parts are having what looks like glacier advance in the back yards that is damaging some homes.
As for climate change worries, you can always figure out ways to keep cool, but getting out of the way of an advancing glacier is no easy task as this video shows. Watch this video of what happens in an “ice out” from the nearby lake Mille Lacs, you can actually watch the ice advance. In a matter of minutes the wind pushes the ice about 15 feet from the shore to the doors and windows of lakeside homes.
While this isn’t the same mechanism as ice-age type glaciation, it is fascinating to watch.
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This happens only when the ice has “candled” i.e. full of multiple vertical holes shaped like candles – the result of solar radiation melting in place. The ice retains most of its thickness but the resulting ice mass is very light and fragile – so breaks up and gets pushed easily by winds. nevertheless when it gets piled up at a barrier it can still exert significant pressure and be destructive.
Yikes, and I thought the blob was just a SiFi movie!
N. N. Taleb attributes financial bubbles to risk commoditized and accumulated by government central banks. Many little mom-and-pop failures are anti-fragile to faux-robust “too big to fail.”
Here in Wisconsin we continue to break the cold weather records.
Here is an article from Hayward, WI discussing opening day of “Open Water” fishing, without the open water on the lakes around those parts of the state. They did manage to find some open water along the rivers so fish were taken..
Fishing Opener 2013: Snow, ice don’t stop some anglers
http://www.haywardwi.com/news/article_19616f6c-b7ef-11e2-b34a-001a4bcf887a.html
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
By Terrell Boettcher News Editor
With ice covering most area lakes, 16 inches of fresh snow and freezing rain and sleet to top it off, the 2013 fishing opener Saturday, May 4, was a memorable one. But those who got out — many on ice, not water — did catch some fish.
The snow was an all-time record for the month of May in Wisconsin. It didn’t stop the Governor’s Fishing Opener from taking place in the Cable and Hayward area, as anglers sought out any open water they could to wet a line.
Because of icy conditions at the Cable Airport and the wintry weather, Gov. Scott Walker didn’t make it to the event, which was headquartered at The Lakewoods Resort on Lake Namekagon..
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While planning the event, “Never in a million years did we think we would be sitting here looking at snow and historic weather,” Bolen said. The area received as much as 17 inches of snow on Thursday, May 2, a new record for Wisconsin. The previous record for largest May snowfall in Wisconsin was three inches in 1935, he indicated. “So we have set a record for largest snowfall in the state of Wisconsin in the month of May ever.”
By contrast, last year, “we had the earliest ice-out ever,” Bolen said. “These lakes were all open the third week of March. On May 4, 2012, the water temperature was 62 degrees. This year, we are looking at a record late ice-out for the state of Wisconsin. So it really has been an unprecedented challenge that we have faced, to make sure we give you the opportunity to fish, to do so safely, to give you a great experience. Because fishing is ingrained in the culture of northern Wisconsin.”..
This phenomenon is something everyone living on the shore of large norther lakes needs to be familar with. It is not new. This is what happens with very large lakes freeze over durring the winter and then start to thaw in the spring.
One of the most amazing weather events I have ever seen!! Absent of the obvious implications towards the (decided)Science, It is still breathtaking. On a more humorous note, I hear tell that they ran this story on Al(gore) Jazeera.
Ivu events like this are greatly feared by northern slope natives as they happen with little warning and are caused by events far from the effect. Like flash floods in a desert on a clear day. Barrow Alaska had a significant ivu event in 2006 that was widely reported. It buried a road and can potentially have destroyed the town had it not stopped when it did.
The scariest part was the two women standing around filming while the ice was destroying their house.
Another cold slooooooooooow moving front moving through these parts again..
Loopy jet stream. Maybe, should be taking a close look at the arctic oscillation thingy..
All the fun stuff seems to gather around the poles..
It was 53 F this morning here in Memphis, supposed to hit 45 tomorrow… normally 65 or so at this time, so we’re a good 15~20 degrees colder than usual today.
Looking at the May temps for last year, the scale went from 40 to 100, this year it goes from 30 to 90… >.>
Similar event occurred in Manitoba, Canada this past week. The ice pushed cottages off their foundations. The ice piled house high. Not “unprecedented” but certainly frightening. People said they went in to get something from inside & upon their return the deck was being torn off.
Some pictures.
https://www.google.nl/search?q=kruiend+ijs&newwindow=1&client=firefox-a&hs=SjZ&rls=org.mozilla:nl:official&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=braPUaXIK-ib1AWHxIDAAg&ved=0CC8QsAQ&biw=1752&bih=952
http://www.afanja.nl/lichtlijnig/tag/kruiend-ijs/
Wow – maybe 400 ppm CO2 really was a tipping point after all.
Powerful stuff. It reminded me of the remorseless advance of the tsunami waters moving inland on the East coast of Japan.
The real ice age will show up probably as a series of long (not necessarily the coldest) winters followed by cool summers which will allow snow and ice to accumulate.
One of my cousins if Houghton, Michigan, says that they have to hire somebody to remove the snow from their roof about half way through the winter. Maybe they ship the snow to Mille Lake.
Great visual example of how dominant wind is in Arctic ice formation and dissipation. The cho-cho sound is maddeningly mysterious!
On a canoe trip back in June 1985 I was stuck on the only island on a Sid Lake, NWT, at the edge of the treeline–lake ice had stopped our progress. On the second day there the wind came up from the NW and slowly pushed 30 foot slabs of ice onto the island. It was an incredible sight to see it move. Unstoppable. Fortunately, the wind cleared a path through foot-thick floes, leaving us with only candle ice to deal with as we pushed on to the Thelon River where ice would no longer be a problem.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/05/11/owners-pick-through-remains-of-manitoba-homes-crushed-by-9-metre-high-wall-of-ice/
In 2002, Mann dismissed the “so-called Medieval Warm Period” & the Little Ice Age as regional phenomena, despite the fact that abundant evidence already then existed that both were global climatic events.
http://www.meteo.psu.edu/holocene/public_html/shared/articles/littleiceage.pdf
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They an event in January at Lake Winnebago where foot-thick slabs of ice were pushed ashore by high winds damaging houses and other structures. One homeowner said his family had built the house in 1953, and they’d never seen anything like it. Clearly, the event must have been caused by global warming.
There didn’t appear to be high wind in the video. It’s a tremedous volume of ice to move, I can’t see wind having enough traction on surface ice to push it up the banks of the lake, unless it was funnelled into a bay.
We should see some more good videos like that one in a few days, strong winds cranking in all areas where ice is still on lakes..
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/eaus/wv-animated.gif
I live near and often fish on Lake Dauphin- the Manitoba example above. We call this “fri-ice”, for friable, but candle ice is correct. Lake Dauphin is very large- maybe 40×30 miles. The 80km north wind would have a fetch of 40 miles to “push” from any place there was a crack or opening. Once moving the ice piles up and catches more wind. The Lake had 30-35″ of solid ice this winter, and we had to put extensions on our augers for ice fishing. With the very delayed spring, the candled ice was still very deep last week, but was rotting because the sun has power. I’ve seen this before, but never this deep. Even more awesome is the wind driven hard ice that infrequently occurs. Here, solid ice floating offshore can move around as wind direction changes. Those in the know watch this closely, as a wind shift can trap a boat and prevent escape to a landing. I have seen boats crumpled and pushed many metres into the bush. Ice slabs can be pushed up on shore with such force that they move boulders and bulldoze trees. Once I saw three layers of 24″ ice slabs stacked up like planks against a wall. When this happens it sounds like thunder- such is the force. Like so much in nature ice off can be gentle, or fearsome.
With late break up and the seasonal winds coming soon, I expect great entertainment for the squatters and house boaters on our local waterfront, I am cheering for a wind from the south and slabs of ice ramming into the bay.
Nothing can stop it, exposed points can be cleaned right down to the glacier polished bedrock.
Pathway says:
May 12, 2013 at 8:20 am
“The scariest part was the two women standing around filming while the ice was destroying their house.”
They were doing the most responsible thing. By staying there, exhaling CO2, they tried to amplify the greenhouse effect. The 4.3 micrometer photons emitted by CO2 are optimally suited to melt ice.
The only thing they forgot was producing enough 4.3 micrometer photons and direct them at the CO2 cloud so that the CO2 could absorb and re-emit them towards the ice.