Late 06 / Early 07 Island work?

Merrymeeting · 12-27-2006, 07:50 AM

There is a barge with a backhoe on it near the beach on the Broadview cam! Almost New Year and they can still run the barges to the islands! I'll bet they had been expecting to be able to drive across by now!

At least the water temp is finally in the 30's. If we can only get 2-3 days where it stays below freezing, I'll bet it drops fast.

Grant · 12-27-2006, 10:46 AM

Still much warmer than it was this time last year, and we know what happened (or didn't) last winter. El nino?

codeman671 · 12-27-2006, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Merrymeeting

There is a barge with a backhoe on it near the beach on the Broadview cam! Almost New Year and they can still run the barges to the islands! I'll bet they had been expecting to be able to drive across by now!

At least the water temp is finally in the 30's. If we can only get 2-3 days where it stays below freezing, I'll bet it drops fast.

There is a crew at our place on Mark still doing work, they are hoping to get another week in to finish up. I am going up for my final trip tomorrow or Friday.

Resident 2B · 12-27-2006, 11:35 AM

Grant,

The lake is 3 degrees warmer than this date last year, based upon the information on this web site.

There is still a lot of winter ahead, but the long term forecast is for normal or warmer than normal for the next 20 days. Forecasts can be wrong, let us hope they are.

R2B

SteveA · 12-27-2006, 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Grant

Still much warmer than it was this time last year, and we know what happened (or didn't) last winter. El nino?

Hate to bring bad news.... check out this NOAA site:

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2006/s2742.htm

But take heart... they also predicted a big hurricane season for this past fall....

SAMIAM · 12-28-2006, 10:28 AM

Bottom line is....nobody can predict the weather more than a few weeks ahead of time.The Farmers Almanac,for example figures the averages over many years and then takes a guess.Sometimes they hit it and sometimes they don't.Al Gore told us that the Florida shoreline would dissappear due to melting iceburgs.The National Weather Service predicted at least 12 named hurricanes for 2006 with 5 of them reaching category 4 or more.
So , keep your chins up....we still might get buried in that beautiful white stuff.

Orion · 12-28-2006, 12:26 PM

The lake is 3 degrees warmer than this time in 2001, the winter that it never really froze over completely. With the 33% probability shown that it will be warmer than normal this winter, it doesn't look good for solid ice again. I'm mostly hoping for snow as I've got 2004 sleds with only 250 miles on them (none last year).

12-27-2006, 07:50 AM	#1
Merrymeeting Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Merrymeeting Lake, New Durham Posts: 2,226 Thanks: 302 Thanked 800 Times in 368 Posts	Late 06 / Early 07 Island work? There is a barge with a backhoe on it near the beach on the Broadview cam! Almost New Year and they can still run the barges to the islands! I'll bet they had been expecting to be able to drive across by now! At least the water temp is finally in the 30's. If we can only get 2-3 days where it stays below freezing, I'll bet it drops fast.

12-27-2006, 10:46 AM	#2
Grant Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Pennsyltuckey, Tuftonboro, Moultonborough Posts: 1,500 Thanks: 375 Thanked 230 Times in 124 Posts	Still much warmer than it was this time last year, and we know what happened (or didn't) last winter. El nino? __________________ "When I die, please don't let my wife sell my dive gear for what I told her I paid for it."

12-27-2006, 11:35 AM	#4
Resident 2B Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: North Shore, MA Posts: 1,357 Thanks: 994 Thanked 313 Times in 163 Posts	Warmer Water Grant, The lake is 3 degrees warmer than this date last year, based upon the information on this web site. There is still a lot of winter ahead, but the long term forecast is for normal or warmer than normal for the next 20 days. Forecasts can be wrong, let us hope they are. R2B

12-28-2006, 12:26 PM	#7
Orion Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Cow Island Posts: 914 Thanks: 602 Thanked 193 Times in 91 Posts	warmer than 2001-02 The lake is 3 degrees warmer than this time in 2001, the winter that it never really froze over completely. With the 33% probability shown that it will be warmer than normal this winter, it doesn't look good for solid ice again. I'm mostly hoping for snow as I've got 2004 sleds with only 250 miles on them (none last year).

12-28-2006, 10:28 AM	#6
SAMIAM Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Moultonborough Posts: 2,895 Thanks: 334 Thanked 1,676 Times in 586 Posts	Bottom line is....nobody can predict the weather more than a few weeks ahead of time.The Farmers Almanac,for example figures the averages over many years and then takes a guess.Sometimes they hit it and sometimes they don't.Al Gore told us that the Florida shoreline would dissappear due to melting iceburgs.The National Weather Service predicted at least 12 named hurricanes for 2006 with 5 of them reaching category 4 or more. So , keep your chins up....we still might get buried in that beautiful white stuff.