Quote:
Originally Posted by Drewski Canuck
Seen Pinehurst iced up a few May Long weekends now.
Until you get rid of the snow pack on the ice, the sun does not penetrate to the lake bottom to get the heat starting underneath in the shallows.
Rain can sure help, but it takes alot of rain to cause a phase change. I understand it is 84 joules of energy to take a cubic centimeter of ice to liquid state.
Wind can push the ice on shore, somewhat, but sometimes that just plugs and destroys the boat launch as well.
Drewski
|
Water on top (from Rain etc) with warm wind can rot ice quite quickly I have found. Then if you can get a bit of wave action it can break up the chandler ice in a hurry. By the way I think the 84 must be calories because the latent heat for ice to water is 333.55 Joules.