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When ice becomes an artist

"Yannis" wrote in message
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I am sure I have sent you a couple of pictures with ice by a lake shore;
today, I came across some more, this time from the lake of Ioannina, in NW
Greece (January 2004):

http://www.enl.auth.gr/temp/mvc-007f.jpg
http://www.enl.auth.gr/temp/mvc-008f.jpg
http://www.enl.auth.gr/temp/mvc-009f.jpg
http://www.enl.auth.gr/temp/mvc-021s.jpg
http://www.enl.auth.gr/temp/mvc-025s.jpg
http://www.enl.auth.gr/temp/mvc-027s.jpg
http://www.enl.auth.gr/temp/mvc-028s.jpg
http://www.enl.auth.gr/temp/mvc-030s.jpg
http://www.enl.auth.gr/temp/mvc-031s.jpg
http://www.enl.auth.gr/temp/mvc-032s.jpg
http://www.enl.auth.gr/temp/mvc-033f.jpg

Yannis, SE Athens

Fantastic images Yannis, can you give us a description of past weather
events here ? I suspect a series of frreze-thaw days/nights are the cause
with snow melt being the agent for freezing. What height above sea level is
it ?

ATB, Joe

When ice becomes an artist

Fantastic images Yannis, can you give us a description of past weather
events here ? I suspect a series of frreze-thaw days/nights are the cause
with snow melt being the agent for freezing. What height above sea level
is
it ?

Ioannina is a semi-mountainous town at an altitude of ca 600 m asl. The ice
in the pictures was produced by high winds that caused the lake water 'wash'
already frozen surfaces outside of the lake and freeze instantly upon coming
to contact with them -if I got your question correctly. The town of Ioannina
itself didn't see much snow this year until January 30th (strange town snow
wise because of the big mountain range to its east), so I doubt that the ice
was the outcome of snow that was freezing and remelting. I can recheck the
info for you though! The pictures must have been taken on January 23rd or
24th when temperatures were quite a few degrees below 0C throughout most of
the country.

Yannis, SE Athens
+8.9C, RH 75%, SLP 1014.5 hPa
http://2004.e-kairos.gr/january.html

When ice becomes an artist

The lake water wash onto already frozen surfaces looks correct to me. We
sometimes see ice like this here, before the lakes freeze over, of course. I
am impressed to know that any part of Greece has cold such as this.

The ice in the pictures was produced by high winds that caused the lake
water 'wash'
already frozen surfaces outside of the lake and freeze instantly upon
coming
to contact with them -if I got your question correctly. Yannis, SE Athens
+8.9C, RH 75%, SLP 1014.5 hPa
http://2004.e-kairos.gr/january.html

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When ice becomes an artist

"Scott L Hadley" wrote in message
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The lake water wash onto already frozen surfaces looks correct to me. We
sometimes see ice like this here, before the lakes freeze over, of course.
I
am impressed to know that any part of Greece has cold such as this.

In that case, may I suggest a visit to http://www.e-kairos.gr/records.html
(the left column shows what most foreigners are unaware of, the record LOW
temperatures; note that Florina reached -29C reached in 1996 and that
various locations have record low temperatures in the -20s). I am trying to
keep this page up-to-date with all breaking records.

Yannis, SE Athens
+12.5C, RH 49%, SLP 1020.0 hPa
http://2004.e-kairos.gr/april.html