TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2011So, You Want "Icebergs" in Lake Michigan? This is the best we can do (unlike this). Big, huge chunks of snow washed into the harbor channel by last week's big storm/waves. The second "iceberg" (in back) is piled up along the concrete breakers. For scale. Here's one giant non-eroded pile of snow on shore. There are piles like this all along the shoreline. And all this after several days of melting in the warm (40 degrees!) temperatures.Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Links to this post |
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There is NO WAY that Lake Michigan made these bergs, no! and not even here in Norway could you find such ice...but a Norwegian IS said to have taken the pictures! Sailor Ćyvind Tangen took these while he was aboard a research ship 1,700 miles south of Cape Town, 660 miles north of the Antarctic, and the striped icebergs reminded him of humbug candy he bought as a child.
From Snopes.com: http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/stripedicebergs.asp
You have a beautiful site, tusen takk!
Margrethe
I think it's not "global warming" you have to worry about, it's global cooling. There used to be a mile of ice right where I am now (and there will be again). Amazing.
Thanks for th cool blog.
Love,
The Bort King.
You'd think they'd at least say it was Alaska!
However, I do remember seeing Niagara Falls frozen in mid-air during the winter... it happens all the time, and I have seen this with my own eyes. The weather at Niagara Falls area is pretty much the same as at the Great Lakes....
so, while Lake Michigan may not typically display these "bergs" (probably because of the Lake effect winds preventing such a buildup), still it is not totally unthinkable... who knows whether it could happen or not?
As to the freezing of Niagara Falls, I guess you saw what you saw, but Snopes once again comes to the rescue and explains how Niagara Falls cannot freeze in midair (there are over 10,500,000 gallons of water going over the falls in one minute; the physics of that make it impossible), and has only stopped flowing completely once (at least since there have been human witnesses who recorded it) in 1848. That was due to the ice that formed UPSTREAM from the Falls and stopped the flow of water. See here: http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/niagarafalls.asp
These are basically piles of snow on or near the shore. Sometimes waves coat them with ice, sometimes they might even float in the water for a while, but as they are not giant chunks of floating ice broken off from a glacier (see link on How Icebergs Are Formed, above) they are not icebergs. We might be inclined to call them that, but that's not what they are. Unless a new Ice Age dawns and glaciers form and break off chunks that float in one of the lakes, there will never be real icebergs in Lake Michigan.