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Posted By:
Don Maxwell
Date Posted:
Jan 12, 2018
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* Â Ice on the river today.
* Â Snow tonight.
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Date Taken:
2018-01-03, 3:09 PM
Place Taken:
Tar Bay, VA
Owner:
Don Maxwell
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Don Maxwell - Jan 03,2018
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There's a very brief (32 secs) video experiment, too:
and it's snowing now...
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Dennis Scearce - Jan 04,2018
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Did the ice do any damage to your hull paint? I haven't seen any ice on Lake Norman yet but it's definitely too cold to fly. Supposed to be warmer next week.
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Don Maxwell - Jan 04,2018
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I didn't land. (No paint on the hull, anyway, just gelcoat, and the vinyl stripes are above the water line.) Here's how it looked at 8:08 this morning:
The point is due east. (I was flying more or less westward in the video and then turned north-ish.) Some of Buzz Island is visible at the left, about 2,000 feet from the camera. The water appears to be frozen almost that far out, but there's a deep N-S channel just this side of the island, with enough current to stay wet. I've skated on the river a couple of times, but never that far out. The tide breaks the ice and makes skating risky, even when the ice is thick enough.
SnowDay_2018-01-04
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Mark MacKinnon - Jan 04,2018
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Those of us in the north feel your pain. (Well, maybe).
This storm is now hitting Maine with a foot of snow forecast. This on the heels of an unusual over-week long cold snap that hit -17 deg F one morning at my place.
Yesterday I amused myself by watching several Beaufort SC traffic cams, showing the snow. The Lowcountry was snowcountry. I never saw that during the three years I was down there.
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Don Maxwell - Jan 04,2018
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The weather has turned odd here, Mark. Maybe the earth has gotten flatter lately.
By noon the viz had improved, but the wind was still strong. Click on the photo (then click again on that photo) to see a squadron of Canadian amphibians that was hunkered down facing into it. (Why are they there instead of sheltering in the woods, out of the wind? Could the ice be warmer than the ground? Or are they just dumb clucks? Maybe it's because nobody can sneak up on them out there.) The ice is all the way out to the channel just this side of Buzz Island. Buzz Island got its name when there was an airport here.
Noon 2018-01-04
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Don Maxwell - Jan 04,2018
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Close up of the geese. Even the watchgoose--the one standing--has its head tucked under a wing. The gull isn't flying today, either.
Hunkered Down at noon
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Brian Furnell - Jan 04,2018
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Dennis Scearce - Jan 04,2018
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I hope the wings aren't loaded with that much snow!!
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Brian Furnell - Jan 04,2018
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Made the treck!! Not a lick of snow on or within 5ft of the airplane, too much wind. Nothing bent either! ...yet
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Don Maxwell - Jan 05,2018
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You might as well see what happened today, after the storm had passed.
Because of the tide action, the ice isn't great for skating--cracked and punky in places--but it's fresh water, good and thick now.
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Don Maxwell - Jan 06,2018
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Here is it this morning, with ice all the way across, except for the main shipping channel (the darker blue strip below the trees), the first time I've seen it that way. Buzz Island is 2000 ft, and the far shore is about 1.5 sm. (65x optical zoom)
Ice except main channel
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Eric Batterman - Jan 06,2018
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I like your hoekey stick.
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Don Maxwell - Jan 06,2018
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I like your spelling. (Seriously! He made a joke.)
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Nickens, Dan - Jan 06,2018
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It’s pretty hokey, though. (The joke, not the picture. It’s seriously spectacular.). Are you British,
Eric? Your humour is snickeringly droll. Like Terry Pratchett, one of my favorite writers,
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Eric Batterman - Jan 06,2018
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No relation to the crown. I just like wordplay.
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Brian Furnell - Jan 05,2018
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Dennis Vogan - Jan 06,2018
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It’s -22°C here again today. Ironically, there’s rain forecasted for Thursday!
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Don Maxwell - Jan 07,2018
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Yesterday a friend, Kevin, and I were skating on the river and had a very spooky experience. Most of the ice was... well, typical ice, whitish because of entrapped air. But there were patches of what we at first assumed was open water. We approached one very cautiously, tapping on the surface with hockey sticks, and found that it was solid ice, the clearest ice I've ever seen anywhere, with absolutely no visible air in it. Skating on it was unsettling at first, but we soon came to love it--though it was so smooth, it was almost hard to skate on.
The ice was so clear, we could see right down to the river bottom, and that led to a further surprise: there was no liquid water under the ice. According to the tide tables, it was then about midway between high and low tide. Normally, the water would have been about 3 or 4 feet deep just there; but the water had gone elsewhere. Here's a photo of Kev seeming to skate on air.
And here's a very brief video clip of us flipping a puck around on another clear spot.
Clear-Ice
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Mark MacKinnon - Jan 10,2018
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This is in today's news. This is how cold it's been this winter:
http://bangordailynews.com/2018/01/10/maine-teen-caught-ice-skating-on-beach-in-viral-video-was-celebrating-birthday/
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Don Maxwell - Jan 10,2018
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"Wicked cool" (the headline on the second video) is right!
Mark, I wish you could have been here for the skate to the marina (Jan 07). I went to the point you see in this photo. It was the best long distance skate I've had since I was about 12, when some friends and I skated about a mile each way on frozen marshland near Cleveland. That one was good because the water was shallow, so there was no worry about drowning. This one on the 7th was better ice--mostly that perfectly clear ice--but in places the water underneath was deep enough to worry me, as I was alone and it was late in the day. But of course that just made it a better Adventure.
The river is still iced over today, but it's too soft and punky to skate on. The weather that produced the good ice was the coldest here in almost 40 years. But it's over now: Mild yesterday and today, and Friday is forecast to be nearly 70 F.
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Mark MacKinnon - Jan 10,2018
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I'm kinda surprised you even have a pair of skates, Don. I got rid of mine some years ago since good skating conditions on my lake is rare (they were too small anyway).....most winters, just as soon as the ice is safe, we get a snowstorm and that ends any chance of skating, like this winter.
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Dennis Scearce - Jan 07,2018
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You are having entirely too much fun up there. Don't you have a wood heater you could cozy up too? That's what we do at Laney's (N92).
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Robert Richardson IV - Jan 07,2018
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Don Maxwell - Jan 07,2018
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Dennis, I can think of a few other entities even more cozy-up-able than a wood stove. But tomorrow's high temp will be in the upper 30s, and it'll be 60-something by Thursday--so there's no time to waste in cozying. This is the best ice in the eight years we've been living on the James and it's only the second winter with ice suitable for skating.
I just got back from skating to the marina at the point north of us, about half a mile each way.
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Don Maxwell - Jan 12,2018
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There's one more part to this story. After the ice broke up and there was no more skating, it was time to go flying again.
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Carr, Frank - Jan 14,2018
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Nice video Don. I like the gloves; but I like it better that I don't need a pair.
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Don Maxwell - Jan 26,2018
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About those gloves, Dennis: Just yesterday I noticed that Home Depot still sells those deerskin gloves. The price is about $20 in Richmond, up from the $9-something I paid about 20 years ago. I like them a lot for chilly weather because the leather is soft and sort of fluffy, but not bulky. They provide pretty good feel for things and are warm enough down to about freezing. The color does take getting used to--but, then, it also makes them easy to find.
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