You can read Ice 5 or 3 or 2. But freezing temperatures in salt water look different than in fresh water, salt ice not like lake ice, which is a topic for tomorrow. The sixth boro low temperature in the first two days of January was well above 0 F, Maine and Minnesota well into the double digits negative F, and Anchorage, a balmy 46 ABOVE, warmer than places in Florida!
But I digress, cold is cold and uncomfortable. Polar bear plunge notwithstanding, a strong swimmer won’t last a minute in this water.
But work goes on . . .
with extra layers
and precautions.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who really postponed admitting the new year had arrived because–dangerously– it was more comfortable thinking otherwise.
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January 5, 2018 at 10:55 am
ws
According to today’s paper @ Newark Airport, we are still trending
warmer than Normal:
Heating Degree Days:
Season to Date 1801
Normal to Date 1878
No doubt October, the second warmest October on record is reflected here..
January 5, 2018 at 11:13 am
tugster
yessir, ws. Darrell Huff published the book How to Lie with Statistics when I was 2, and it was not a new phenomenon then. Cherry picking numbers to support your argument is as old as time. Scientists DO get corrupted inn their quest for funding, but I’d put my trust in scientists before ideologues any day of the week. Global weirding is my new favorite term–I did not coin it–and it’s affecting our brains. Meanwhile, I just shoveled my car out just in case I need to flee; now I’m looking to warm up. Stay by the heat!!