S&P Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 3.6 here. I did 5 miles this morning and if it wasn't ripping windy it would have been fine..I hate wearing a facemask as i feel like I'msuffocating. Have to keep pulling it down from my mouth . Other than that a little cold is great to get out in and get after try using vaseline Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Meh really? How many do you get a year? 8f here and I don't get many lower. Getting down to the single digits is not uncommon for TAN. Last year, which sucked, I had 3 days below 10F from Nov 1 2011 to Mar 30, 2011 This year, counting this AM, makes 4 days. From Nov 1 2010 to March 30, 2011 I had 21 days below 10F, with a few below 0F. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Its pretty nasty when it gets down to 3F and its 15-20 mph winds. A lot different than calm and 3F. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted January 25, 2013 Author Share Posted January 25, 2013 CT River completely frozen over in HFD driving over now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Its pretty nasty when it gets down to 3F and its 15-20 mph winds. A lot different than calm and 3F. I was thinking the same thing, last night was nasty compared to the calm cold of the night before. Hopefully the next Arctic outbreak comes with deep snow OTG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 meh meh meh, The whole cold up here is nothing that i would consider out of the ordinary stuff we have not seen before, If its not record cold then i would rather it be normal temps, The only thing that makes it more uncomfortable is the winds have been quite steady over the period, -3F was the low up here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSUmetstud Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 1 degree here last night...coldest of the cold snap. If we stay 20 or under today, which we should, this will be the 5th day in a row of 20 or lower highs. I can't seem to find a period which had that, I'm sure there a few but it's quite rare. Jan 1994, Jan 1985, Jan 77, and Jan 04 couldn't do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSUmetstud Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 I see Feb 79 pulled it off, now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Huge pond hockey game going on in front of the chem building, awesome. There were people on it Monday, gotta be pretty thick by now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSUmetstud Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 I hate that the bums for the Labatt Ice Hockey tournament in BUF need 12" on the harbor in BUF to go on for Feb 10th. 12" is super safe. Good luck with that in most winters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 I hate that the bums for the Labatt Ice Hockey tournament in BUF need 12" on the harbor in BUF to go on for Feb 10th. 12" is super safe. Good luck with that in most winters. 5" is safe-ish lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSUmetstud Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 5" is safe-ish lol 4" of solid ice can support a person....12" is kind of overkill, but whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Overnight low of 2F here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSUmetstud Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Feb 79 cold outbreak was incredible here. 9 days in a row with highs 11 or lower, 7 of those days had highs in the single digits, 8 of those days had lows below zero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Did see a bit of ice on the Taunton River this AM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ackwaves Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 I haven't really seen a recent discussion on the upcoming pattern. How's it looking? More of this in Feb? If this keeps up, I will have to move my boat to keep it out of the ice that is starting to close up Nantucket Harbor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 4" of solid ice can support a person....12" is kind of overkill, but whatever. yeah I meant for a large group of people to be in one spot though lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Definitely some more ice around today than the beginning of the week Yesterday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wonkis Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 This morning felt comparatively balmy out there - heh. I'm pretty much ready for these Arctic Hounds of Hell to be put down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 If you don't know what you're looking at it might be hard to see above ^^^, but places like the Colebrook Reservoir in CT...St Lawrence River in QC added a TON more ice, Lake Champlain etc. Higher resolution photos would obviously be a lot more telling but I don't know where to get those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 5" is safe-ish lol If it's black ice 3" is safe. This years white ice crap 5" should still be plenty. I always chisel a hole or 2 to check. Currently 8" on the beaver pond out back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Yet somehow the Quabbin is still completely ice free lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 I see Feb 79 pulled it off, now. Lived in Ft.Kent then, hed 8 in a row with highs -2 to -7, and like this week, the wind never quit. My coldest morning in that streak was -22, rather modest for that location. In Rangeley they had some calm mornings with lows in the mid -30s. Downside for that streak was not even sniffing cirrus from PDII. Highs this week, Monday onward: 19, 12, 2, 5, expect somewhere 10-15 today. Wednesday the afternoon high was only -3 (recorded high at 9 PM obs time the evening before), and had the wind quit and full decoupling occurred before midnight, I'd have flirted with -30, rather than the actual -16. Last night was the windiest yet for this windy streak, and we only got down to about -7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hildy Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Re: The ice. This is the oddest thing, but there is still an open stretch on our lake in spite of the cold, when it had previously been completely frozen over under less cold conditions. The torch opened up a fair chunk of the surface. I know very little about ice growth other than what years of skating in New England have taught me, but am very surprised that there is still open water. Does anybody know whether there is equation you can use to guesstimate the effect very cold temps will have on ice growth? For example, if it's 30 degrees it will freeze at this rate, but at 5 degrees the rate increases to XYZ? Or am I just completely making stuff up at this point? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 This site is from the army core of engineers and outlines pretty well load weights for ice http://www.mvp-wc.usace.army.mil/ice/ice_load.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radarman Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 If it's black ice 3" is safe. This years white ice crap 5" should still be plenty. I always chisel a hole or 2 to check. Currently 8" on the beaver pond out back. Yes indeed. I've been out there skating, but it's mediocre to lousy quality. Timing of the freezes, thaws, and gloppy snow haven't been ideal and even resurfacing efforts are only marginally helpful right now. Don't expect open ice til March, so maybe a 1-2 day mild up can help with the top layer at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hildy Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Thanks, dryslot. I've run across that CoE table before--we do a fair amount of wild ice skating, so we are very good about checking ice thickness. I'm just curious about how fast the ice will thicken given the current temps, and whether there was any way to estimate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Thanks, dryslot. I've run across that CoE table before--we do a fair amount of wild ice skating, so we are very good about checking ice thickness. I'm just curious about how fast the ice will thicken given the current temps, and whether there was any way to estimate it. No prob, General rule of thumb from the loggers up here has been with temps in the single digits or below zero, 1" in 24hrs of ice, Of course that would have a much wider effect depending on how much snow cover there is on top as it insulates, Like you said, Always good to check thickness before venturing out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlantStickers Anonymous Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Not sure if it's slightly warmer or I'm just getting used to the temps but today isn't so bad out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 When venturing out onto local ice I usually visit www.iceshanty.com for local ice fishing reports. I don't fish, but the reports always have ice thickness for most of the lakes around here. From that one can better judge what ice is safe and what is not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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