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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If this was scattered surface ice that accumulated due to wind direction, I understand.
I’ve never seen ice in such strange crystal shape, though Perito Moreno was a bit of an eye-opener with its galleries, tunnels and streams.
Wow, I am surprised that the BBC did not have this as headline news, proving Global Warming to be true.
Instead, yesterday morning the BBC had an item on changing migration patterns of birds, with two species not arriving this year because ‘Britain was too warm’. This, by the way, is a nation still locked into winter, with many trees still not in leaf. Even the reporter had to stifle a laugh at that one. God knows who dreamed up that report, and on what evidence.
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May 12th,2013.Watching the ice on Lac Ste.Anne,west of Edmonton,Alberta,redesign the landscaping on many a front lawn on the east side of the lake.Happens every year,just depends on the winds which side gets free ice cubes.
And trust me,climatefraudwatcher.The winds can,and do push mini 10 foot icebergs onto shore,when it has 32 miles of unoppesed lake to come across.Cripes.Even the Canada geese are taking over our front lawn,1/4 mile from shore,as the lake isn’t safe.
Sitting in my house in Southern Ontario watching the snow-rain outside in 4 C temp (40 F), wondering why I came back from the Bahamas. Oh yes, to pay taxes on my electricity, phone, TV, heating oil, gas, etc. It’s just not worth it.
I live in northern Minnesota and grew up on a lake. Watching the ice go out was always one of my favorite spring time activities. Because Mille Lacs is such a large, round lake… they are susceptible to huge ice heaves and floes when the ice rots and melts away from the edges of the lake. Some years it can be especially damaging because it’s still thick in the middle, but the wind carries it along. The worst ever for me must’ve been spring 1993. We lived on the NE side of the lake, but strong west winds pushed the ice off the lake before it was really ready. The ice sheet “grinding” along the shore at an angle caused a lot of damage, uprooting full grown trees and pushing up dirt embankments. It’s a power you have to respect. And yeah, this is the coldest spring since 1950 which was the only 20th century analog to this year. There have been colder springs… but the pattern in March and April was consistently well below average temperatures with no mild weather to speak of… so even in those “colder” springs you’d get a few days of warm weather to really rot that ice. Not this year until the 28th of April. Which is why lake ice out records are being smashed… easily beating 2008 and 1996 and challenging 1950 records.
This is obviously the wrong kind of ice.
OMG – that moved so FAST.
Good to see the clip getting some coverage (if you’ll excuse the pun). The wackos won’t like this one.
Put the camera down and pick up a shovel!
The tide was the culprit (yes, lakes have tides too) and that train sound is caused by the shuffling of the Ice as the rising and falling of the swells pushed the ice forward.
Ellen says:
May 12, 2013 at 5:37 am
I was in Lake Elmo, Minnesota (East of Saint Paul) yesterday. The wind was fierce, and falling ice particles were rattling on the brim of my hat. Had to have come from the clouds, the previous snow had finally melted. Getting sick of this Global Warming stuff.
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Yes it is very hard of the flamingos
Title – “Is this what the beginning of glaciation looks like?”
Last line – “While this isn’t the same mechanism as ice-age type glaciation, it is fascinating to watch.”
So what type of glaciation does this look like the beginning of, if it’s not an ice-age type?
winds are responsables, same event on Manitoba Dolphin lake http://www.telecinco.es/informativos/internacional/agujas_de_hielo-anturaleza-EE-UU-Canada-naturaleza-fenomeno_2_1602855054.html
John Tillman-
the most important part of Mann’s dismissal of the MWP and LIA is that he published on them in 2002, and now again in 2012. So which is it Dr. Mann?
I live in Kentucky in the USA.
Lot’s and lots of idiots around, trust me on this one, Hee-Haw on acid.
One winter my brother and I were out poking around, I remember that it was desperately cold out. We kept hearing this very loud booming noise from the other side of the levee. There’s a levee around the town that we grew up in.
People in Kentucky are in no wise prepared for two or three or four weeks of back to back sub-zero temperatures. An inch of snow snarls up everything. I lived behind the lines in Communist Illinois, a jack-booted-government-thug-police-state for a long, long time, more than a month. They had more snow plows in the town that we lived in than we have in all of Kentucky.
We decided that the thing to do was to go check out the booming noise. We walked up the levee and there was the most amazing thing, a dam of ice across the creek. We walked down to the creek, maybe a week before people had fires out on the ice and people playing on the ice, slipping and sliding around. Nobody had ice skates, wouldn’t have known what to do with them if we did. We had never before seen ice thick enough to support the weight of a car. As we watched, standing below the dam of ice, like I said, lots of idiots around, water gushing out of the holes in the ice dam like fire hoses, grown trees all mashed up in the ice and great rocks gouged up out of the creek bed, and there we are watching, looking up at this spectacle. Then the light came on and we decided that the smart thing to do was to watch from the top of the levee. As we got to the top of the levee the dam broke, like thunder, like dynamite, like thunder, reely, reely loud, the damndest thing I ever did see and the ice dam moved down the creek maybe a hundred feet or so. Trees that we’d climbed and fished under ripped up by the roots and so on.
If you ever get the chance to be around where people are using explosives, in rock quarries or the like, that is what the sound was like. You could head and feel the “BOOM” at the same time.
This dam of ice that I’m telling you about was perhaps thirty feet high. We’d seen floods before. My earliest memory is sitting on sand bags that the Corps of Engineers had piled up and tossing gravel in the water. My mom and dad’s house was right on the levee. I remember flying through the air and landing on my feet and my mom chasing me down the levee. The family was getting to bug-out to Grandmas house, to higher ground.
The creek that I’m talking about at this part is maybe sixty or so feet across.
This went on all day long. My brother and I went and told Mom and Dad all about what was going on. Pappy said stay away, neither went and looked. Best as I know my brother and I were the only people that watched.
I’ve see the work “Gobsmacked” used here before. I was Gobsmacked. Have you ever been amazed and afraid at the same time? Gobsmacked.
You’d have to be Gobsmacked to know what being Gobsmacked is like.
The rest of the day my brother and I watched the dam of ice progress down the creek. Some trees were taken and other left. On the upstream side of the ice dam and the creek bottom flooded and the down stream side looking as it usually did, twenty or thirth frrt in elevation between the two. It looked like a Salvadore Dali landscape after a three week drunk. Never-ever seen anything like it before or since.
This is what global warming looks like. Is there anything that doesn’t look like global warming??? 😉
Hahahahahahah, haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
More lookalikes……
We…we didn’t listen! We didn’t listen!!
Fortunately, the correlation to temperature and control of the climate via carbon credits can be seen immediately by the global increase of ice. Therefore by taxes alone we are able to control the climate median temperature. Please see the disclaimer which shows measureable effects +/- 100K years with a Std dev. of approx. 22.37 degrees centigrade…… thank you.
A great on the spot video ‘by iphone’ capture.
Very rare.
And needed. This video will help surge glacier dynamics, no fooling about that !
That sound, yes I hard it clearly near 2/3 the video. Wonderful !
Well yes. This is a surge powered by the wind across a lake with shore ice and both respond to the conditions.
Although that owner of the house with the patio doors crushed will not be having a happy day at the sight of that.
But that is nature. Get use to it.
1phobosgrunt says on May 12, 2013 at 8:06 am, in part:
“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.”
Meanwhile, the Germantown section of Philadelphia, at slightly lower
elevations of mostly around 250-300 feet, where winters are much
warmer than those of Wisconsin, once received a 4 inch early May
snowstorm sometime in the 1800s. (It probably did not accumulate much
in Center City, whose elevation is mostly around 40-45 feet.)
I doubt Wisconsin never before had 4-plus inches of snow in early May.
FTM’s experience sounds like a miniature version of the Ice Age Bretz (Lake Missoula) Floods that scoured the channeled scablands of eastern Washington state and carved out the Columbia River gorge.
It’s a little bizarre how long it took her to realise the nature and magnitude of the threat.
In the winter of 2009 I remember looking at a worldview of the massive snow line and the thought went through my mind that this is what the footprint of the glaciers would be. I even made that comment on Newsvine at the time. Somehow, I think that we will come to miss the warm times.
Glaciation???
not according to Bloombergs classic fraud.
http://www.theage.com.au/environment/climate-change/melting-arctic-prompts-race-for-routes-resources-20130513-2jhsj.html
of course the good ol Spencer Street Soviet picked it up and ran with it..
regrads
Things aren’t looking too good in the “canary in a coal mine” of global warming – Alaska. It’s worse than we thought for the area that is warming faster than any other place. Hahahahahaha.
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bobbyv says:
May 12, 2013 at 5:21 am
somebody tell me about that train sound.
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Polar Express….