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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSEATTLES GREEN LAKE IS FROZEN FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1972
Yes it's cold in Seattle!
http://www.cyberdurden.com/seattles-green-lake-is-frozen-for-the-first-time-since-1972/
Someone placed a recycle bin at the center of the lake. That was a brave soul lol!
NightWatcher
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(8,541 posts)Heddi
(18,312 posts)Not sure what the humidity is, but even in the worst of summer it's not bad unless the wind isn't blowing. THEN the humidity sucks. Thankfully, I'm about 1/2 mile from Tampa Bay (about 8 to the gulf), so always get really good breezes. Granted, I've lived in the South my whole life so am used to it, but even after living in Seattle for 13ish years, the humidity doesn't bother me.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)One and a half miles from the bay and five and a half from the gulf where I currently sit. Too far from both.
Heddi
(18,312 posts)it's so pretty outside. Have had the windows open all weekend...went out on the boat on Saturday. Aaah, while my friends 'up north' (NC and up) are freezing their tushies off, I sit here in shorts
rzemanfl
(29,557 posts)Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)In SE Texas today the high is supposed to be 78. It should be in the mid to low 60's.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)The plants probably don't know what to do.
LeftInTX
(25,332 posts)Last week, 2 brutal cold days. On Sunday, the low was 19. On Monday the high was 72.
One day in 2006, the low was 23 and the high was 69.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)I just walked around it the other day. There's some ice on the edges, but it looked paper-thin and I couldn't see any ice in the centre.
I'd love it if the whole lake were to freeze over and we could skate on it! Has that ever happened?
MissB
(15,808 posts)Sometime between 1977 and 1982. Not sure what year. Grew up north of there on a lake. Froze solid, as did all the lakes in the area. And yep, we could ice skate.
I don't think it's quite cold enough this year.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Lots of people die from skating on thin ice.
haele
(12,654 posts)Several of my friends went out to the NW side, where it was a bit shallower so there was a significant area that was solid ice, and went skating before the police came by to chase everyone off.
Later that year, we had a major problem with the old 1890's/1900's storm drains in the area collapsing.
Most of the reservoirs froze, also.
Haele
MissB
(15,808 posts)All I know is that I was likely in elementary or perhaps barely middle school. It was lots of fun to skate on a lake that we usually canoed on or swam in.
It probably wasn't much fun for my parents though.
On edit: I went to high school in Anchorage. Going up to big lake in the winter time was a trip- folks drove big vehicles across the ice. There were huge cracks across the lake.
Jim Beard
(2,535 posts)ismnotwasm
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(41,980 posts)I'm going to walk around the lake today though.. I love Green Lake
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)I'm gonna try and make it there in the next day or so.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)Jim Beard
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(108,978 posts)nolabear
(41,963 posts)Funny, I'm in Seattle too and hadn't heard it had frozen-ish.
ismnotwasm
(41,980 posts)Saw a police van and a fire truck. The police said they can't stop people from walking on the ice, but there will be help pulling them out if they fall in. It's beautiful, as always.
bravenak
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I'm moving right now and have a uhaul. I'm thinking we're just gonna have to pay for an extra day.