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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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Probably, Nenana’s “moon” has a higher degree of popularity than Joshua Halpern.
Is that Michael Mann? Brown eye and the same vertical smile!
I’ve saving the updated images every 15 minutes or so for the past 4 hours and there has been no movement of the tower from the first to the last image & as the day has gone on you can see that the water on the surface is from melting.
Now that’s a full moon!
Ten Minutes!!!!!!!
getting crowded….
A new record!
Bet the MSM don’t report it.
Record broken full moon or no full moon LOL
11:42:08 AKST, tripod standing, record is set
Looks like a new record.
Got a screencap with a timestamp of 12:42:08!
Don’t forget that the previous record was set in 1964, which was a leap year. Therefore May 20th that year was one day later in the year than it is this year, on account of being after the extra Feb 29th. Tomorrow we celebrate.
IF the Ice classic committee considers it a record, so do I.
Yup it’s a new record!! (The leap year issue is irrelevant as far as the contest is concerned…)
So I wonder who will win the contest money??
I tried giving them a call and their phone is busy.
documented
Just listened to a recording. They consider it a record.
Can you imagine the conversations those people bundled up watching from the river side are having? I’m pretty sure it is not about reducing their carbon footprints.
Maybe he’s just a plumber?
Prime time for moving looks to be 9 am to 8 pm, so at least a few more hours until it is likely to make it another day. Anyone watch enough of these in the past to comment on how much surface water is present before the break-up.
Steve C says:
Don’t forget that the previous record was set in 1964, which was a leap year. Therefore May 20th that year was one day later in the year than it is this year, on account of being after the extra Feb 29th. Tomorrow we celebrate.
No.
If you want to account for calendar drift vs the solar cycle, then you measure against the solar cycle. Measuring from either the vernal equinox or the winter solstice, the record was set by 10AM AKST, earlier this morning. We celebrate today!
NWS set a flood watch for Wednesday through Friday for the Nenana area. So ice out is coming soon.
The Nenana Ice Classic Office expects the ice to break up either today or tomorrow.
There is a recording on their phone.
They acknowledge a record broken after 11:41am. (standard time?)
Guesses are submitted in standard time.
Congratulations to Nenana, Alaska, the new Global Warming Hot Spot !
On a related note…
http://twitter.com/lukasnorman/status/336134522804531201/photo/1
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/05/20/while-toronto-gets-perfect-25c-weather-for-victoria-day-gander-newfoundland-digs-itself-out-of-record-54cm-snowfall/
Bits appearing in the channel, can’ be long now…
kbray in california says May 20, 2013 at 10:52 am
I’ll remember it as ” Moon River “
Ha ha ha …
Traditional:
More picturesque: