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Old 04-17-2018, 07:27 PM
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Originally Posted by swampy45 View Post
but how many joules does it take to melt the ice my beer is sitting in?
I tried that exact experiment for years and years .......... never found out .... but the cool beer was very refreshing ....

Last year we were on Cold Lake and most the lake was absolutely impassable on Friday with Ice covering virtually 3/4 of the lake, edge to edge, and all along the shoreline there was only a small amount of open water from the west all the way around north. One solid mass, miles and miles in either direction, it was crazy.

We were limited to only a kilometre or two along the south size from the marina and towards french bay.

We found this out by taking a drive Friday evening around the lake and stopping at various spots.

Friday night was mildly windy and Saturday the sun came out and withing hours the ice started breaking up and the center mass seemed to "pulling away" from the shore quite quickly.

Sunday - the lake was 100% ice free except for one large broken up mass of small floating ice in the middle of the lake.

I was absolutely stunned how quickly that happened.

I would not have believed it if I had not seen it with my own eyes.

The picture posted was taken on Sunday while burning across the lake.
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