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[mailto:bounce-112542730-9392...@list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Geo Kloppel
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 6:29 AM
To: CAYUGABIRDS-L
Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Additional freezing info
Photos of the 1912 event show crowds of people out on the frozen lake; even
horses. But two
Photos of the 1912 event show crowds of people out on the frozen lake; even
horses. But two Cornell students skating near King Ferry were drowned when the
ice gave way beneath them. Here's the Cornell Daily Sun article:
http://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/cornell?a=dd=CDS19120219.2.1
-Geo
Wow. That is really interesting. It shows how much colder it was in the 1800s
and very early 1900s. It is almost unheard of
for any of the Finger Lake to freeze over today. The above period was during
the end of the Little Ice Age before the early 20th
century warm-up.
On Sunday, February
In 1970, I worked as the class clerk for the Cornell class of 1910. One alumnus
told me that, while a student, he had skated the length of Cayuga Lake to visit
with his Dad. He returned, also by skates, the next day. He said the lake
didn't stay frozen for very many days, and had failed to
That looks like Cayuga Lake froze completely at intervals of 20, 10, 30, 19, 9, 20, and 8 years between when the white settlers arrived and when that article was published in 1912. It would be surprising if there were then a gap of over a century.--Dave NutterOn Feb 09, 2014, at 09:18 PM, Susan
I wonder for how long. The lake can skim over with a sharp dip in temp, and
then winds break up the ice. When we went down to the lakeshore Saturday
morning (we're just north of the village of Aurora), the shore was covered with
shards of ice, clear as glass-and then the water was indeed
