51,calm with showers

Over the last two centuries, lakes around the world, including those in Maine, have seen decreases in the duration of winter ice cover. As global change leads to increasing annual temperatures, the length of lake ice cover each year has been slowly declining and is expected to continue to decline. The easiest way to quantify the duration of ice cover on a lake is to record the first day each year in the spring where the lake is free of ice. This day is referred to as the lake’s ice-out day for that year. There exist large amounts of historical ice-out data. There are eight Maine lakes with consistent ice-out records that extend back from before 1880 to the present day.

This project is a painted grid, with each column representing a different lake, and each row representing a year, with the grid moving forward in time from top to bottom. Each point on the grid has been assigned one of seven colors, according to the ice-out day for that year, when compared to the average pre-1900 ice-out day for that lake. Darker red colors represent years with earlier thaws, and darker blue colors represent years with later thaws, creating a visual gradient from blue to red, with white representing middling values. Years with no data are marked in black. While many people who interact with lake ice in the winter, such as ice fisherman, may be familiar with year-by-year ups and downs, this project aims to fully represent the long-term changes to lake ice in Maine.

Data Sources:

https://me.water.usgs.gov/reports/OFR02-34.pdf

https://www.maine.gov/dacf/parks/water_activities/boating/ice_out_dates.shtml

Morning all,

IW....glad the therapist took it easy on you yesterday 

H2L....hope MrsH2's reports were all good 

MrC....it was very warm/humid yesterday until the t-storms moved in 

IFF....hope there hasn't been any damage from the storms down your way 

FH4.....Friday's just around the corner 

A couple errands today then another round of mowing    hopefully all the rain since Sunday won't create any issues 

Have a good day. Stay safe, stay healthy.

               Good morning ER's,
                        It's 42* and partly cloudy here on my hill.
                        Bud............That's the beauty of being retired, being able to fish during the week when the rest are working.
                        H2l.............That's great mileage, and with the price of gas rising you should save quite a bit.
                        Wally...........I started counting down at 4 years. It started as a joke, our division was closed down and we were transferred to another
                division in Manchester New Hampshire. Our first day the division manager asked me how I liked being there, my answer was "I'll tell you in 4 years"
                someone yelled out "How many days is that" That night I went back to my room and figured it out. At the next meeting I was asked the question again.
                And i spewed out the number of days.
                        Steve.......... My decision to go in the Navy was, having going to military school, NYMA. I knew what the army was aboutand i rather take my  chances
                on a ship. No matter what service one was in there was always a chance of being sent to Viet Nam.
                        Fish.............I hope you have perfect weather this weekend.
                        Yesterday's therapy session was pretty easy, my therapist didn't want top push it to hard the first day back. I'm cleared for 25 more sessions.
                         I hope everyone has a good Thursday either at work or out. Stay Safe and Healthy.

                 IW