It is definately starting to look and feel like winter here in Pittsburg, NH. :fluffy:
There is a little over an inch on the ground and it is snowing lightly. :div20: The low temperature was 18 over night and the First Connecticut Lake has "turned over" this week. :div20: Hopefully it will now start to be colder so we can get some frost in the ground. :div20:
Mark :beerchug:
PS. Check out the web cams before it melts! :banghead:
Full Version: Starting to look like winter.
SWEET!! :fluffy: :fluffy: :fluffy:
It was even cold down here this morning, in the low 50's and the leaves are starting to fall.
About 30 days til the trails open, Let it snow!
About 30 days til the trails open, Let it snow!
its hard to focus on work with all this talk of snowmobiling.. 
Yesterday, November 11, 2005, was the first day of this season that the weather stayed below freezing all day long. :div20: In fact, last night it got down to 13 degrees here at web central and yesterday we picked up about 2 inches of snow. :banana: It is 16 degrees right now at 7:30 AM and it has been below freezing for over 36 hours. :div20:
The long range forecast has a slight warm up the next few days and then at or below freezing from mid week lasting at least a couple of weeks. There is even a prediction of some snow in about a week. :fluffy:
Definately looking like the start of the winter season here in Pittsburg, NH. :banana: :banana:
Mark :beerchug:
The long range forecast has a slight warm up the next few days and then at or below freezing from mid week lasting at least a couple of weeks. There is even a prediction of some snow in about a week. :fluffy:
Definately looking like the start of the winter season here in Pittsburg, NH. :banana: :banana:
Mark :beerchug:
QUOTE(OldViperRider @ Nov 11 2005, 07:43 AM)
It is definately starting to look and feel like winter here in Pittsburg, NH. :fluffy:
First Connecticut Lake has "turned over" this week. :div20:
PS. Check out the web cams before it melts! :banghead:
First Connecticut Lake has "turned over" this week. :div20:
PS. Check out the web cams before it melts! :banghead:
Explain?? Are you refering to eutrification, I'm guessing they can tell it has turned by water temp. Or can you actually see a change in the water.,. Perhaps it clears up a bit more??
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Explain?? Are you refering to eutrification, I'm guessing they can tell it has turned by water temp. Or can you actually see a change in the water.,. Perhaps it clears up a bit more??
"Eutrification"? I had to look that up, :augen41: but I could not find it in my dictionary. Can you supply me with a complete definition?
Around this time of year, when it is very calm, you can actually see the lake surface churning. It is not very much, but you can see it. :div20: Maybe I am imagining things, but I have seen it most years. Now we will start to see the ice forming around the edge of the lake during the next cold spell.
By the way, my neighbors pond has been covered with a thin coat of ice the last few days. It will melt with the warm up the next few days. The forecast is for a stretch of cold weather starting the end of this coming week and it will freeze again.
If it stays cold, Back Lake should have a thin coating in another three or four weeks.
Mark :beerchug:
I spoke too soon. :augen41: Back Lake had a skim of ice over most of it this morning. It will lose it the next couple of days, but if the forecast holds true it will be back by next weekend.
All you early birds don't get excited yet! It will be quite a few weeks before it will be safe to ride.
Mark :beerchug:
All you early birds don't get excited yet! It will be quite a few weeks before it will be safe to ride.
Mark :beerchug:
He's getting terms mixed up. Eutrophication is the buildup of nutrients, such as phosphurous and nitrogen that results in the decline of dissolved oxygen and resulting in mortality of aquatic species of a lake or pond. Kinda like an aging process.
Thanks ZR8. :div20:
Mark :beerchug:
Mark :beerchug:
yup the snow will be here soon enough
I believe this is what Mark is seeing (or it is Nessie):
Bodies of water form layers based on differences in density, usually affected most by temperature in fresh water and both temperature and salinity in salt water. Water will become more dense as its temperature is lowered until it reaches its maximum density at 4° C. One of the unique properties of water is that it becomes less dense as its temperature decreases from 4° C until it freezes at 0° C. This allows many aquatic life forms to survive through the winter. If ice were more dense than water, it would freeze and sink over and over until the entire lake was frozen. This would eliminate many aquatic organisms and produce a system with far fewer life forms in lakes which freeze periodically.
Changes in water density also cause vertical movement of water and nutrients within a lake, commonly called turnover. In the spring as the ice melts, water at the surface becomes more dense as it warms to 4 degrees C and thus sinks. This sinking water moves to the bottom and forces nutrient-rich water at the bottom to move up. This same process occurs in the fall as the surface water cools and becomes more dense; it will sink and cause the same movement or turnover of the lake's water.
Dave
Bodies of water form layers based on differences in density, usually affected most by temperature in fresh water and both temperature and salinity in salt water. Water will become more dense as its temperature is lowered until it reaches its maximum density at 4° C. One of the unique properties of water is that it becomes less dense as its temperature decreases from 4° C until it freezes at 0° C. This allows many aquatic life forms to survive through the winter. If ice were more dense than water, it would freeze and sink over and over until the entire lake was frozen. This would eliminate many aquatic organisms and produce a system with far fewer life forms in lakes which freeze periodically.
Changes in water density also cause vertical movement of water and nutrients within a lake, commonly called turnover. In the spring as the ice melts, water at the surface becomes more dense as it warms to 4 degrees C and thus sinks. This sinking water moves to the bottom and forces nutrient-rich water at the bottom to move up. This same process occurs in the fall as the surface water cools and becomes more dense; it will sink and cause the same movement or turnover of the lake's water.
Dave
Gee, I wish I had said that. Thanks for the fine explaination Dave. :div20:
Mark :beerchug:
Mark :beerchug:
My brother was in North Conway this weekend and he saw a small pond with a skim coating of ice. We are gettin close....... :banana:
QUOTE(daveh @ Nov 14 2005, 01:05 PM)
I believe this is what Mark is seeing (or it is Nessie):
Bodies of water form layers based on differences in density, usually affected most by temperature in fresh water and both temperature and salinity in salt water. Water will become more dense as its temperature is lowered until it reaches its maximum density at 4° C. One of the unique properties of water is that it becomes less dense as its temperature decreases from 4° C until it freezes at 0° C. This allows many aquatic life forms to survive through the winter. If ice were more dense than water, it would freeze and sink over and over until the entire lake was frozen. This would eliminate many aquatic organisms and produce a system with far fewer life forms in lakes which freeze periodically.
Changes in water density also cause vertical movement of water and nutrients within a lake, commonly called turnover. In the spring as the ice melts, water at the surface becomes more dense as it warms to 4 degrees C and thus sinks. This sinking water moves to the bottom and forces nutrient-rich water at the bottom to move up. This same process occurs in the fall as the surface water cools and becomes more dense; it will sink and cause the same movement or turnover of the lake's water.
Dave
Bodies of water form layers based on differences in density, usually affected most by temperature in fresh water and both temperature and salinity in salt water. Water will become more dense as its temperature is lowered until it reaches its maximum density at 4° C. One of the unique properties of water is that it becomes less dense as its temperature decreases from 4° C until it freezes at 0° C. This allows many aquatic life forms to survive through the winter. If ice were more dense than water, it would freeze and sink over and over until the entire lake was frozen. This would eliminate many aquatic organisms and produce a system with far fewer life forms in lakes which freeze periodically.
Changes in water density also cause vertical movement of water and nutrients within a lake, commonly called turnover. In the spring as the ice melts, water at the surface becomes more dense as it warms to 4 degrees C and thus sinks. This sinking water moves to the bottom and forces nutrient-rich water at the bottom to move up. This same process occurs in the fall as the surface water cools and becomes more dense; it will sink and cause the same movement or turnover of the lake's water.
Dave
Great explaination, makes sense too. :div20:
it was about 60 in southern mass all day today ...i live in the wrong damn state
QUOTE(strangeland2 @ Nov 14 2005, 05:24 PM)
it was about 60 in southern mass all day today ...i live in the wrong damn state
Same in northern MA. I think I'm going to take my bike for a ride tonight :banana:. I gotta ride something and might as well ride it whenever I get the chance.
We are currently getting sleet here in West Ossipee this morning. It won't be long before the SNOW starts to fly. :fluffy: The long range forecast is for cooling temps :beerchug: after a brief warm up tomorrow.
Man it's getting close, I can't wait. :banana: 
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