Official Sign of Spring: Coast Guard rescuing ice fishermen stranded on Lake Erie:

[hedgehog]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/02/07/national/a102039S67.DTL&type=business

[Earth_First]

1. Rose-breasted grosbeaks...

As soon as you see them, you know that Spring has sprung to stay...

[hedgehog]

2. I know that Spring is here to stay when the Coast Guard picks up the guys off the

Niagara River near Buffalo!

[theoldman]

3. Happens every year when the wind comes up and you are

so busy catching fish that you do not notice. I was surprised to see it happen in February when the ice is still so thick.

[hedgehog]

4. AHA! But is the ice thick? If it broke off, that suggests the Lake is warm/

warming up which suggests an early Spring.


It also suggests a whopper of a lake effect snow storm for us sometime in the next 4 weeks!

[Earth_First]

5. It does..

What I was surprised to see was the amount of lake effect the last few weeks off Eire regardless that it has frozen over.

[hedgehog]

6. Was that technically lake effect of just the cold air from Canada meeting the

warm and wet front coming up from the Gulf? We had snow fall last week-end, but the wind was coming from the south instead of from Lake Ontario.

[Holly_Hobby]

7. MSNBC: One dead so far n/t

[hedgehog]

8. Boy, didn't see that coming. Seriously, ice fishermen get stranded on the lakes and the Niagara

River every year, but this is the first time I've head of a death.