Ice-in Watch 2007
 

Greetings All.... I know it seems like wishful thinking.... but here is this year's Ice-In Watch page.

Anyone who is willing to take a daily picture to post I will put it on the page... (email: rattlesnakecam@comcast.net)

We have never had representation from the Moultonborough area... is anyone there?? (even a weekly picture would help)

Use this thread to comment about Ice-in.... here we go!

The babes are dancin' again.

:coolsm: Island Girl, who really wants to go snowmobiling this year!


If you cannot click on links go to: http://www.rattlesnakecam.com/icein.htm

The Snow Gods of the West Taunt the Snow Gods of the East
 

No snow? ... well I have to tell you, the snow gods of the west are doing a great job http://www.rattlesnakecam.com/newyear2007/northwest.htm

My recent trip for the holidays saw the most lovely mountains just full of snow.... I think the Babes on Sleds have been leaning a little to the left in their dancing... lean to the right, lean to the right ....... get those snowflakes falling!!

someone has to say it . . .
 

Island Girl meet FLL . . . FLL meet Island Girl. OK?

I have been doing my best, dancing my boots off but alas . . . the ice that was out to Sandy Point has receded back toward the Bandstand. It's open water at Mee N Mac's. If this keeps up, we may have to wait another year for our overwhelming win in the bed race! Can we party anyways?;)

Ladies, I'm telling you. You are working too hard! Grab a drink, put your feet up, and relax. Then maybe we can do some winter sports! :rolleye2:

Memories coming back to me
 

Ok I am jealous...First you had all that wonderful snow for the holidays.... Second the second I looked at the picture in the thread, I got homesick...and I new instantly where you had been....and then I confirmed that by looking at the additional pictures you linked....I miss Washington....Having been born there There are many images I remeber....being in Snoqualmie Pass in that very parking lot many times is an image ingrained in my memory....

I just thank the lord you didn't put a picture of Rainer in the Post...I would have had to plan a trip had I scene that image....I hope you enjoyed your Visit to Washington the Pacific Northwest is truely a Gem.....

FLL, so sorry to hear of your trouble. Things generally happen for a reason. Time will help you. Anybody that would do that on Christmas Day, is just not nice. We second quilt lady's suggestion.... We'll be thinking about you and sending positive thoughts your way. Chin up!!

Ice Not In This Year Watch..
 

If there's no ice in 2007 does the person that won the 2006 Ice Out Contest win again with his April 3, 2006 guess by default....thus placing DRH in third place again??? Or is the winner Al Gore? And does the 'Mount' get out of Center Harbor whenever it pleases. Lots of questions to be answered. Too many things to think about during periods of hibernation.....

Someone else posted an earlier question that would be interesting to debate.

Do we declare ice out for 2007 as January 1st at 12:00 AM?

By the definition, it qualifies.

Official ice out is declared when the M/S Mount Washington can reach all 4 of its ports without touching ice. This usually occurs during April. The earliest recorded ice out was March 28th, 1921 and the latest was May 12th, 1888.

However, this brings up the interesting debate of whether you can have ice out when you've never had ice in.

Cutting the point even finer, one could argue that there was at least a momentary qualification point within the last week or two as there was a point where the Mount could not have reached all of it's ports without touching ice, even if that ice was just a momentary thin layer. Was that "ice in"?

Ok folks. Time to determine case law here! :idea:

Break out the jetskiis
 

If iceout has been declared... I am going to put in my jetski... Woo Hoo!!

IG

(I am still looking for a ride out to Rattlesnake Island to fix Snake Eyes.... there must be someone brave out there!!!)

Winter Not over yet
 

Let's remember last May when we were saying how low the lake was because of the lack of rain. Two weeks later we had more rain than we could handle and some were talking that the lake should be declared head speed only.
Watch out when it finally gets here.
Look at the amount of snow Denver has reeived in the past two weeks.

Ice out
 

Here is another theroy, Camp usually opens with the Mosquito's at least for me, and I think a few others. Yesterday in Newmarket my daughter killed her first mosquito for 2007.

Dancing like crazy with no results!!
 

QL,

I'm doing my darndest down here in NJ as well, but at 1 pm it's 71 degrees. I'll try leaning to the right as suggested, the left coast has enough snow. We need some of Denver's leftovers. We need some ice for February so our bed race entry can kick butt! We can party anyway just to celebrate being in NH instead of NJ or MA, right IG and Island Sib?

Like May!
 

I almost hate to tell you all this, but it's 62 degrees in West Alton today! Will winter ever come? :eek:

Heat wave
 

We woke up to 58 in Gilford (I took advantage of the rain this morning and slept until almost 9 am). :D

Later we went food shopping at MB in Tilton and the temp was 68 at about 1 pm.

At least we went skiing a few times last weekend at Gunstock...looks like it will be some time before we get to do that again. :rolleye2:

...talking about insects, saw something yesterday that looked like a large mosquito flying around in Meredith. Hmmm.....how about that, and today it felt like a sunny 70 degrees, shirtsleeve weather, in the very busy Wal-Mart parking lot in Plymouth? Thirty minutes later, it was raining and overcast?

Fll & Ig
 

Quilt Lady, I think IG knows him too well already to go out with him!
Fatlazyless, I am just kidding. (Perhaps you should post your photo in your user profile.)
By the way, Island Girl definitely would be a wonderful catch for you. She’s cute, likes to have fun and l-o-v-e-s the lake!
You could butter her up real nice if you could get her out to the island A.S.A.P. to fix her webcam.

It sure isn't looking good right now for the bed race, but this is New England.

Sounds like a great plan! :cheers:

74 degrees today in Haverhill MASS
 

Kinda sad to see the boat covered up in wrap on such a gorgeous day!! Has there been ANY ice on the lake? :rolleye2:

Great Trip
 

The trip was wonderful... especially my little grandchildren on Christmas morning...

I was at Snoqualmie Pass a couple of years ago.... but we did not tube. This time after a long, very long wait in line we got the last of the tickets. It was so cool.... just maybe my only snow of the season with the El Nino winter we are having. I did not see Rainier this time.... it is very impressive, though.

Where did you live there... my daughter is in Sammamish.

IG

As amazing as it may seem, despite the weather we've had the water temperature is only about 2 degrees off from the historical records on this site for early January. Now I know that it takes a lot of lost energy to drop that much water by 2 degrees. But if we ever get a few days/nights in a row where it stays below freezing, I'll bet it will skim over quickly.

Island Girl - they cancelled my kids' ski lessons at Snoqualmie West this morning because of too much snow! Unbelievable. We leave windy and warm NH a few days ago to return to icy and snowy WA. Must be a consequence of global warming... :confused:

- Frank

The Forum Hero of the Month - FLL
 

Answering my plea for a ride to Rattlesnake Island to fix Snake Eyes, FLL (FatLazyLess), who is neither fat, nor lazy, and most certainly not less, traveled from Flashing Light 3 in Meredith to W. Alton over a quite windy broads... to pick me up at the home of DRH and Quilt Lady. The ride out was nice... but quite rough on the broads side of the island. It took a while to get the cam operational and tested (more trouble with my router than the cam). FLL patiently waited as the day wore on and I worked on the tasks at hand.

Snake Eyes is now back so we can watch ice-in... if we ever have one... and it is all due to the courage of this great friend of the forum. If you think this is all bull... think about being alone for more than 10 miles on a lake where there is no one else and the water temps are less than 40 degrees...

Thank you so much FLL for spending the afternoon so forum folks can get their lake fix!!!!

Applause... Applause.

Well Done!
 

Kudos to IG and FLL! Snake Eyes is back!

And IG's right ... FLL is not "Fat", not "Lazy" and certainly not "Less"!

Curious minds need to know...

Did FLL opt for the chocolate or cheesecake?

FLL to the rescue! What a great story and thanks FLL!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!
 

:D Fll and IG...finally tommorow a new day.
Since it stopped working everyday I would still check it out...kind of like the movie "Ground Hog Day" hoping eventually it would go back on...
Yes, I listened to IG's technical explaination but still held out hope it would just reset..
Now, lets have some weather with that cam;)

I whacked 2 unidentified flying insects yesterday, one here at the Weirs and one in Laconia!

Yes!!!
 

Hoorah!! Every day I look at the Weirs cam to see how things are at the lake and to check out the air temperature. Then I click on Snake Eyes to look out at my little piece of heaven (also known as Cow Island). I have sure missed Snake Eyes and I was fearful that it wouldn't get up and running until Island Girl was able to get there by snowmobile (which as we all are fearful, might not happen). So, thanks to FLL and Island Girl both whose posts I faithfully follow on the Forum. Hoorah!!

Shhhh
 

Nice Job FLL!
 

Bravo fatlazyless! Today you are my hero! (How did you come up with such a name? It sounds like it's so wrong! :confused: )
Were you at all nervous being on the lake for such a distance with the water temps so low? Was I right that IG is a lot of fun to be around? ;)

Thank you Island Girl for sharing this excellent story. (You lucky woman getting out to our island!)

Many thanks to both of you, nice job! I bet many of your forum friends will be smiling all day. :D

Still can't see Snake Eyes
 

I still see Snake Eyes with the December 10th date::-(

I think you just need to refresh your browser. The Snake Eyes picture shows today's date, Jan. 8, 2007.

Try this
 

Refresh your browser a few times... also you can try clearing your browser cache. If you are using internet explorer, click of tools, internet options, in the middle section called "temporary internet files", click on the delete files button and wait until this is finished. There is no danger here of deleting anything important... it is just a storage place for frequently used internet pages.

IG

Ice Expert - Explains it all
 

Interesting story in todays Citizen...

Everything you ever wanted to know about ice formation.

http://www.citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll...081/-1/CITIZEN

Thanks IG & FLL!
 

Yeaaa! :) The Snake Eyes view from here in NJ is great!! I nominate FLL for hero of the month (maybe even the year). Perhaps we can bring some NY style cheesecake when we drive up next month.

Hopefully we will soon be able to see some ice forming on the breakwater. I'm still dancing in the hope that by the time we arrive in Feb. the Babes On Sleds will be in action.

FLL, accross the broads in that boat this time of year? You've got a set big enough to bring in a dump truck!

I lived in two locations in Washington. I was born in Seattle, and lived there on two seperate occasions...I first time we lived in Renton, and the Second time we lived in Federal Way. I also lived on the otherside of the mountians down along the Columbia River, in an area known as the Tri-Cities (Kennewick, Pasco, and Richland). It was always amazing to travel around out there, so many climates...I can remember early winter trips leaving Seattle in the rain, finding snow in the mountains, only to some out the other side of the the cascades into tumbleweed and brush......In fact...this year winter out here reminds me a lot of winter in the Tri-cities, small amounts of snow that disappear with in days......

A real MAN
 

It takes a real man to be out in what appears to be a Starcraft Islander. :cheers:

Ah, I can see the lake now!:)

Chieftan
 

I do believe it is a Starcraft Chieftan..

Thank You
 

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU IG and FLL you are my heros.I am begining to feel normal agian if that is possible.
It really was like groundhog day.
Hope we get some ice for the bed race.:)