Ed: Winter has started here too. Although it was only -7 in Minneapolis yesterday morning, it reached -30 F in my boreal forest study areas in northern MN. Ice is already a foot thick on most lakes in MN. Last Sunday I went to Duluth for the Minnesota Moose Summit (the purpose was to gather experts and figure out why moose are disappearing from MN), and winter had just started in Duluth. The 1000 foot hill at the entrance to the city on I-35 was like a giant slide in heavy falling snow--like one of those kiddie bumper car arenas, except these were real cars. The most important thing is to stop at the bottom before plunging into Lake Superior.
A major snowstorm is on its way Sunday, and the police are anticipating closing I-90 and I-94 during the storm, since a blizzard warming has been issued and winds will gust to 50 mph or more, with temperatures well below zero. Minneapolis will be at the southern edge of the storm and we might get freezing rain before the arctic air pours in Sunday evening. Snowstorm forecasts are not very accurate and we won't know what is going to happen until it happens. Monday might be the first day so far this winter with daytime high temperatures below zero--I will have to get out my medium weight winter coat. Lee At 07:32 PM 12/12/2008, you wrote: >ENTS, > >I hope all of you in the northeast are doing well with this recent ice >storm. I see quite a bit of damage to trees from ice. There is loss of >power to 1.25 million homes and businesses in the Northeast. We are right >at the very western edge of it here in Jefferson county PA and caught very >little of it. Frosty the Snowman is on television, but my mind keeps >running through sublimination processes and O18 fractionation in snow >falls. Oh well. it looks like we will be having a white Christmas here >this year. > >Ed > > >Join the Primal Forests - Ancient Trees Community at: ><http://primalforests.ning.com/>http://primalforests.ning.com/ > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org You are subscribed to the Google Groups "ENTSTrees" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
