According to the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, on November 20, 2014, three of Michigan’s Great Lakes had ice starting to form. Lake Superior and Lake Michigan were one-half percent ice covered, while Lake Huron had one percent ice. Lake Erie was not reporting any ice as of Nov. 20, 2014.
Decent early season ice coverage records date back to 1973. Last Friday was the earliest date that all three Great Lakes already had ice since the better reporting of early season ice began.
Lake Superior actually had ice forming on November 15th of this year. That is the earliest ice on Lake Superior in the good data set.
h/t Jim
If the AGW people knew in advance that was going to happen, they would have predicted it.
Of course it’s getting colder as a consequence of getting warmer! Climate Change(TM) has conclusively shown that this is the consequence of the “missing heat” in action! And non-statistical, allegorical claims of “increased climatic variability” (which used to known as “weather”) are again proof positive that the majority of Climate Scientists are little more than over-educated Cargo-Cultists with delusions of scientific understanding. They may know how to mouth the words, but no matter how valiantly they weave their theses, their thatch-plane weather models refuse to fly.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the ice formation on Lake Superior at this time of year is the earliest ever recorded on any of the Great Lakes since records started being kept more than 40 years ago.
The organization said ice had formed on November 15, which is the earliest date in its database since 1973.
Temperatures in areas of ice formations on Nov. 15, such as Sault Ste Marie, dipped below -10 C.
The highest level of ice cover this year on Lake Superior was recorded from February to April, when more than 90 per cent of the lake was covered by ice.
Overall, a maximum ice coverage of 92.2 per cent across all Great Lakes was recorded in early March. That was the second-highest ice cover ever recorded on the Great Lakes.
The largest ice cover for the Great Lakes occurred during the winter of 1978-79, when 95 per cent of the Lakes were frozen in mid-February.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/earliest-ice-record-appears-great-170122146.html
Posted by: John Galt on November 25, 2014 5:25 AM
I would like to point how racist or whatever it is to deny that global warming/climate change exists and that inserting facts into this debate (used in the loosest sense of the word) is flat-eartherism.
Shame on all of you.
I lived in Thunder Bay in the late 60’s and early 70’s. The snow started falling in mid September, the lake froze by the end of September, and we could still find patches of snow under bushes in early July. Parkas were the only choice for outerwear for nearly six months of the year. I would go winter camping as a teenager and our arctic sleeping bags (good to minus 60 Fahrenheit) barely kept us warm. I am surprised that their records only go back to 1973. Navigation on Lake Superior goes back to the cour de bois who moved furs in very large canoes back into the 1600’s!
I guess we poor primitives didn’t know how to read, write, and observe nature before then. Sigh
“…..to the cour de bois who moved furs in very large canoes back into the 1600’s!….”
Non Non….pas les cours de bois….LES VOYAGEURS……..
3bneil,
I grew up in Thunder Bay, and I have to call bull on you.
Snow in mid-september in the late 60’s early 70’s?
Lake frozen by the end of September?
No way, no how.
Snow in October, ok, sometimes. Did it last. Not usually.
Check the Env Canada records (feel free to incrementally update the year),
and see that this NEVER happened:
http://climate.weather.gc.ca/climateData/dailydata_e.html?timeframe=2&Prov=ON&StationID=4055&dlyRange=1941-08-01|2004-12-05&cmdB1=Go&Year=1967&Month=9&cmdB1=Go#