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posted by martyb on Thursday March 07 2019, @03:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the global-warming-vs-local-cooling dept.

The largest of the great lakes in the United States, Lake Superior

Lake Superior’s ice coverage has greatly surpassed expectations this year.

Earlier in the season, forecasters predicted the lake would reach a little more than 50 percent ice coverage this winter. But as of Friday, Lake Superior was over 85 percent covered, far exceeding the prediction and the lake’s long-term average of 55 percent, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, or GLERL.

This year’s frigid conditions triggered the rapid expansion of the ice that exceeded predictions, said Jia Wang, a research ice climatologist and physical oceanographer at GLERL.

[...] Earlier this week, ice coverage increased about 10 percent within 12 hours, rising from around 75 percent at 2 p.m. Wednesday to nearly 85 percent by 2 a.m. Thursday.

[...] The last time the lake ice reached 100 percent coverage was 1996, which is the only time 100 percent coverage on Lake Superior has been noted since records started in 1973, according to GLERL data.

http://www.ironmountaindailynews.com/news/local-news/2019/03/lake-superior-ice-coverage-nears-90-percent-exceeding-predictions/

[Updated to fix title; changed "Exceeds 90 Percent" to be "Exceeds 85 Percent". --martyb]


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 07 2019, @06:50PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 07 2019, @06:50PM (#811277)

    There is a cost to anything and nothing. When Philippines asked for help with Chinese stealing coral atolls under the mutual defence treaty , the US told them to pound dust. Mostly because they were salty over being told to GTO from Philippines earlier and other things. Well, now that China is building these up into islands and hardening them as "unsinkable aircraft carriers" basically dominating South China Sea, now it's too late to do anything short of war. Before US could have broken the blockade and rescued Philippines navy blockaded by Chinese. Now??

    So what's the cost of not doing anything 10 years ago? Or 20 years ago?

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26524388 [bbc.com]
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouFHeDhmO4w [youtube.com]

    Yes, leaving Syria will have consequences just as staying will have consequences. And just because some people can't think past their next chess move, doesn't mean others are not thinking on a little longer scale.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 07 2019, @07:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 07 2019, @07:53PM (#811315)

    You still haven't mentioned anything that sounds like a benefit to anyone I know.