Extreme February cold ices over most of Chesapeake Bay in rare event

[underpants]

Source: Washington Post

Ice covers vast expanses of the Chesapeake Bay – likely more than at any time in years.

“Most of the Bay is frozen,” says Brian Jackson, an analyst at the National Ice Center. “The coverage extent is way above normal.”


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Jackson says there aren’t good long-term records of Chesapeake Bay ice extent, but that this year’s levels are even more expansive than last year’s maximum reached at the end of January, which followed several outbreaks of bitter cold.

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Virginia Army National Guard aviation crew from the Sandston, Va.-based 2nd Battalion, 224th Aviation Regiment delivers food, mail and medicine to Tangier Island, Va., Feb. 19, 2015. The 1.2-square-mile island has been iced-in since recent frigid weather made routine seaport deliveries impossible. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Terra C. Gatti)

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[Blue_In_AK]

1. Meanwhile, in Alaska, it's 40 degrees

and rainy. But there's no climate change.

[NutmegYankee]

2. How can there be Global Warming? It's cold outside.

Says every redneck asshole... I really get annoyed with the climate change deniers.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. Plenty of non-rednecks say the same thing ...

... when shivering at a bus stop.

It's a common joke, even among those of us who don't deny global climate change. A dumb joke can take your mind off the wind chill, at least for a minute.

I might be a redneck, but I'd have to unwrap a couple yards of scarf to find out.

Stay warm, NY.

[elleng]

4. HA!

I kind of wish I were at the cottage, as 'my' river is a major feeder into the Bay, which is a few miles away. But it's too damn cold for me to be there!!!

[Baclava]

3. Now that's a winter

[Igel]

5. Grew up SE of Baltimore.

A mile from water to the East, a few miles from water to the West and South.

Wish I was there to see it.

Wonder how Sparrows Point and the terminal facilities in Dundalk are coping.

[byronius]

6. Lovely desert weather here in Norcal. Nothing to see, move along.

I wish we were having a winter.

[MBS]

7. It's been genuinely cold in the area

Beautiful, though.