This is something I've written about in the past, that being the declaration of Ice Out on Lake Winnipesaukee. On average it usually occurs right around April 19th, though it's been as late as May 12th (1888) and as early as March 28th (1921).
This year I expected it would be earlier than the average due to the warm weather this month, but I didn't expect it to be this early.
Ice Out was declared at 2PM yesterday afternoon, beating the old record by four days.
I expect some of the AGW faithful will cite this as proof that human caused global warming caused it. But I can counter with the rather late Ice Out back in 2001 (May 2) and the average Ice Out declaration over the previous 10 years occurring around April 16th.
To those of you out there insisting it is AGW all I have to say is something you've said to me whenever I've pointed out the cooler global temps over the past few years: "It's not climate, it's weather."
This year I expected it would be earlier than the average due to the warm weather this month, but I didn't expect it to be this early.
Ice Out was declared at 2PM yesterday afternoon, beating the old record by four days.
I expect some of the AGW faithful will cite this as proof that human caused global warming caused it. But I can counter with the rather late Ice Out back in 2001 (May 2) and the average Ice Out declaration over the previous 10 years occurring around April 16th.
To those of you out there insisting it is AGW all I have to say is something you've said to me whenever I've pointed out the cooler global temps over the past few years: "It's not climate, it's weather."
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