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MISSISSIPPI COLDING

It’s a treat to freeze your feet in the Mississippi sleet! More evidence of non-warming via reader Candy A., currently freezing her A off in Minnesota:

The shipping season on the Upper Mississippi River is officially open for another year. A tow pushing 15 barges arrived in St. Paul early this morning, becoming the first to make it through Lake Pepin, which is still ice-covered in some spots. A 2nd tow that was also pushing 15 barges went through the lock and dam in Red Wing around 5 this morning on its way to St. Paul. This is the latest opening of the shipping season on record. 

Due to too much ice, which has also delayed Mississippi-borne Iowan dam structures:
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It’s way icier than usual:

The average opening date of the navigation season for the last 30 years has been March 20. In 2007, the first tow to make it to St. Paul was the MV Cooperative Venture, a tow owned by American River Transportation Company of St. Louis, on March 29.

This late start, due to unusually cold spring temperatures, breaks the previous late record of April 7, 1978.

Other 1978 records broken: my sister’s copy of Stayin’ Alive. By me, in 1978. Sorry, sis.

Posted by Tim B. on 04/13/2008 at 12:44 PM

  1. And after a week of fairly warm, sunny days here, it’s dreary, cold, and supposed to drop below freezing tonight.  No records broken, but discouraging nonetheless.  Frankly, global warmenating has been very disappointing thus far.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2008 04 13 at 12:56 PM • permalink

  2. Maybe the polar bears should move to St Paul.  At least they’d be able to eat well into April.

    Posted by Diggs on 2008 04 13 at 02:00 PM • permalink

  3. Mississippi Freezerburning!

    Posted by Jim Treacher on 2008 04 13 at 02:35 PM • permalink

  4. That’s how you steal a lake!  You freeze it and then ship it out on barges.

    Er, how do you get the last barge out?

    Posted by mr creosote on 2008 04 13 at 04:44 PM • permalink

  5. One of my daughters lives just down the road, near Brainerd, which sits athwart the Mississippi.

    Best ask her to let us know if the ice on the Mississippi has broken up before we go visit in September.

    Posted by steveH on 2008 04 13 at 05:23 PM • permalink

  6. Other 1978 records broken: my sister’s copy of Stayin’ Alive. By me, in 1978. Sorry, sis.

    Ha! Confession to a 30 year old crime. Write that in the book….

    Posted by kae on 2008 04 13 at 06:25 PM • permalink

  7. Since there’s no warming about, ABC news here is reduced to reporting on attitudes of Australian people towards climate change!

    Posted by blogstrop on 2008 04 13 at 06:55 PM • permalink

  8. Nobody who broke a copy of Stayin’ Alive need ever apologise.

    Posted by graboy on 2008 04 13 at 08:08 PM • permalink

  9. And in related news, the weather here in Central Florida is going to drop into the 50s tonight, and the 40s tomorrow night, with tomorrow’s daytime high expected to be about 68 degrees. Yup, we’re all gonna burn!

    (Note: all temperature measurements given in Fahrenheit, the Real Man’s temperature gauge.)

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2008 04 13 at 09:06 PM • permalink

  10. But come the thaw
    linky

    Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 04 13 at 09:33 PM • permalink

  11. #7 Blogstrop, did you have a look at the comments?
    The median sheeple have been thouroughly brain soaked, the statements show that they have no comprehension of what the argument is about.
    What a bloody shame.

    Posted by Turbine on 2008 04 13 at 11:34 PM • permalink

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