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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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To the warmists who are no doubt reading this thread (and you know who you are!):
I don’t consider this event to be a harbinger of anything – just another interesting, random weather-related event that has gone on for thousands of years, and which will continue unabated well beyond my time here on this earth. Unlike the climate industry ™, I don’t feel any need to go squealing like a stuck hog to the mainstream press every time some notable weather event occurs in hopes that, by doing so, it will somehow advance “my cause”.
So relax, pop a fine microbrew beer (dark beers are my preference), and enjoy the spectacle of a new ice out record, courtesy of mother nature!
Am I the only one seeing images or are image links now embedded?
Steve C says:
May 20, 2013 at 1:43 pm
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.
As JJ points out the record set vs the solar cycle is already in the bag. As regards leap year, you’re mistaken. Since last year was a leap year, the calendar drift is not 24 hours but only about 6 hours. The earlier thread had comments where the authors had troubled to to do the actual work.
clipe says:
May 20, 2013 at 2:37 pm
Am I the only one seeing images or are image links now embedded?
I mean twitter links I posted
This is definitely better than watching paint dry.
And in nearby Newfoundland, Canada, we have more signs of early Spring.
May. 20 2013, 5:01 PM EDT
“Parts of Newfoundland buried by record-breaking spring snow storm ”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/parts-of-newfoundland-buried-by-record-breaking-spring-snow-storm/article12026685/
May 20, 2013; 11:13 AM
“Monster May Snow Buries Newfoundland”
“A record-smashing snowstorm has buried parts of Newfoundland under about 2 feet of snow.”
Jimbo
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/05/20/nenana-ice-classic-continues-to-close-on-new-record-meanwhile-lunar-effects-have-been-noted/#comment-1311103
It will help if the “tripod” stands another day, as that will deprive warmists of a comeback (about 1964’s leap year) when we crow about Nenana’s record-late ice-out in 2013.
this is really bad news….
..now probably for the rest of my life I’m going to have to listen to how the Nenana Ice Classic is getting earlier every year
The image I liked, which I hope will show up on the time-lapse replay, showed an 9-year-old (est.) boy and his younger sister running happily along the edge of the parking lot.
That lunar effect is called mooning
Latitude says:
“…I’m going to have to listen to how the Nenana Ice Classic is getting earlier every year…”
I agree about listening to the warmist crowd. But it will be much worse for everyone on earth if it’s later every year…
You betcha. 😉 You can’t win with these people. Had it not beaten the old record they would say it’s a sign that the heat is still there and it would have beaten the old record if it wasn’t for global warming.
The locals are gathering. They must know something’s up.
When’s the tailgate party?☺
Cracks me up!
Next year it’ll be “The earliest break-up in 2 years is a sign of global warming…..it’s worse than we thought.”
Rats, I was gone for 3 hours and when I got back the tripod was gone. Still new record even if only by a couple of hours.
“…A Kenai couple has the only winning ticket in this year’s Nenana Ice Classic.
The ice went out at 3:41 p.m. in Nenana on Monday and there was only one winning ticket holder in what was the latest breakup on record in the 97-year-old Nenana Ice Classic.
The official winning time was 2:41 p.m. Alaska Standard Time because the contest uses standard, not daylight, time to determine the winner(s)…”
Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2013/05/20/2909357/kenai-couple-wins-nenana-ice-classic.html#storylink=cpy
LMAO. I’ve been sitting here reading this thread and the other thread trying to observe the claimed lunar effect. Of course not knowing what a Tacoma truck is, I look at all the vehicles in both threads just in case my screen colours are a bit off…and then I see it! LMAO…
Waterboys The Whole Of The Moon Lyrics
Songwriters: SCOTT
(Mike Scott)
I pictured a rainbow
You held it in your hands
I had flashes
But you saw the plan
I wandered out in the world for years
While you just stayed in your room
I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon…