12-13-2003, 09:41 AM
I know what you mean about the snow on top of thin ice. it acts like an insolater. iven if the teps drop in to the teens it has a hard time radiating through the white stuff. that is why the eskamo's used the white stuff for housing. it keeps inside temps at a balmy 32* degrees.
on the up side NY should have ice if we keep the cold spell by the end of next week. all the ice cold snow even if it got hit by a little worm rain will drop the temp of a good layer off the top of the lake. this will make freezing a lot easer.
we always get our best ice freesing and fastest when we get 6 inches of snow in open water then a good freeze. last year it only took 6 days from open water to 4 inches of clear glass like ice. you wanna talk about hard ice. I pulled a mussle drilling through just 4 inches.
[signature]
on the up side NY should have ice if we keep the cold spell by the end of next week. all the ice cold snow even if it got hit by a little worm rain will drop the temp of a good layer off the top of the lake. this will make freezing a lot easer.
we always get our best ice freesing and fastest when we get 6 inches of snow in open water then a good freeze. last year it only took 6 days from open water to 4 inches of clear glass like ice. you wanna talk about hard ice. I pulled a mussle drilling through just 4 inches.
[signature]