Ice-in Watch 2007

[webmaster]

when does the "Global Warming" edition of the Ice-Out Contest begin???Click here (http://www.winnipesaukee.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4212)

[CanisLupusArctos]

...and the winter we thought would never come. The lake is making nice deep-sounding booms tonight as temps dip into the single numbers again. Very nice pics, flyguy! To build on what you said, "If there was any doubt..." about the ice cover: There will be even less doubt after next week's arctic blast gets here. Mon-Wed highs around 10, overnights below zero - stay tuned to the weather thread!

Thank you for the compliments, Jersey Girl! Here's a shot from the weathercam on the last morning of January showing "diamond dust" from the very light snowfall we had... and tonight's moonlight on the completely-frozen Lake Winnipesaukee (shot with SLR not webcam).

[JTA]

Island Girl,
Do you know of the web cam at the Wolfeboro Corinthian Yacht Club? It's a live cam. As I was watching the other day, a snowmobile was skimming across the open water back and forth. Very entertaining! Glad it wasn't me.
http://www.wcyc-nh.com/wcyc-nh_008/clubcampage.html

[GWC...]

When I try to access the Wolfeboro yacht club cam, I get a BLANK PICTURE. Does any one have some suggestions for me. Thanks........
Worked fine for my system.

It does require Javascript enabled.

Are you able to view a majority of the various webcams on Snake Eyes?
http://www.rattlesnakecam.com/lakecams.htm

[BlackCatIslander]

I just tried it and it worked fine. Try it again.

[Island Girl]

We have been out in the broads and towards Wolfeboro.. pretty solid, but boggy going through the ice rifts...

BE CAREFULL and could not get to my house because I went through the ice near the shore... (one leg only... just down several inched... scary!)

IG

[JPC]

When I try to access the Wolfeboro yacht club cam, I get a BLANK PICTURE. Does any one have some suggestions for me. Thanks........


I get the same blank page as Chubbs. I went to their home page and clicled on the thumbnail webcam picture and again got the same results. ??????

Anyone know what's up with Wolfcam?

[GWC...]

I get the same blank page as Chubbs. Anyone know what's up with Wolfcam?
It's better to ask, "What's up with my system?"

Just tried it again. The waterfowl are enjoying the open water.

Do you have the latest update for Java and is Javascript enabled?

Are you using MS Op System?

My system is a few years old, not a huge "gamer"; but it does have a cable connect with the above mentioned items. Sometimes it takes Java a while to load. An "Active X" was not necessary to view the webcam, as some require.

Hope this helps...

[mg2107]

Works for me. Try opera or fire fox.

[jeffk]

The display is done via a Java applet that may not load automatically depending on your security settings. If you mouse over the page a tag opens that says to "click to load and run the control". Its a security feature in Windows to not load code (Java, Activex) unless you specifically allow it to. I had to click on the blank page (this implies you give permission for the code to run) and then wait a bit for the applet to load. Then it came up. Good luck.

[Waterbaby]

...and the winter we thought would never come. The lake is making nice deep-sounding booms tonight as temps dip into the single numbers again.

It's been so long since I've been up there in the winter I can't remember........ how much longer will it be "Booming"? All winter? Can it be heard during the day?

Thank you!

[ghfromaltonbay]

[QUOTE=JPC]I get the same blank page as Chubbs. I went to their home page and clicled on the thumbnail webcam picture and again got the same results. ??????

When I click on the picture I get a message saying load:Movieapplet not found. All I see is a gray screen. Clicking on it does nothing???

[Grant]

Make sure you have the latest Java version installed. It can also be a firewall issue, it seems, as I cannot get it on this laptop while at work, but the same laptop on the wireless network at home gets it just fine.

[RI Swamp Yankee]

What Grant said.

I can get it in Firefox, Opera, and Explorer but you need Java. Bill gates thinks you don't need Java so if you have Internet Exploder you need to download Java seperatly to work with it.

[CanisLupusArctos]

It's been so long since I've been up there in the winter I can't remember........ how much longer will it be "Booming"? All winter? Can it be heard during the day?

Thank you!

As far as I've ever noticed, it's always boomed all winter long but booms the loudest when it's cooling off (really cold nights). The ice expands and contracts depending on temp (see numerous discussions and related science articles posted in the Winni Weather thread - I learned a lot from them) and I never bothered to note when it stops making noises. The first time it booms every season is always attention-grabbing. My guess is that the noises it makes stop having the ability to shake the earth as soon as the ice pack shrinks back a few feet from the shore in springtime. In spring it does a lot more gurgles which are hard to discern from the tail lashing of the Loch Winni Monster. Just kidding about the monster. No I'm not. :D

[Waterbaby]

In spring it does a lot more gurgles which are hard to discern from the tail lashing of the Loch Winni Monster. Just kidding about the monster. No I'm not. :D

Of course you're not! :). We know the Monster exists -- look at all of the times the invisible limbs have reared up and swiped sunglasses right off of people's faces while they are boating! :D

[CanisLupusArctos]

This evening I witnessed the season's first truck on the open lake: An SUV with snowmobile trailer traveling from north of Bear Island to the Moultonborough mainland, and a smaller SUV followed at about 100 feet. Bobhouse communities are beginning to pop up in places that didn't even freeze last winter. I saw no vehicles at all on the open lake last winter.

Yesterday I measured the ice south of Black Cat Island at 9 inches and I assume after another cold night and day, it's thicker now.

Just beware of the lake monster!

[Peechee]

Wow, the thought of a truck rolling on the frozen lake seems incomprehensible to me, but please understand. I've never been up to Lake W. in the winter, even after many years. Why is that? No excuses. But I can imagine....hmmm. Maybe there is a creature in the icy depths...

[Merrymeeting]

Hard to believe we were wondering whether the lake would freeze this year, huh? :laugh:

[codeman671]

I have to say the whole trucks on ice thing freaks me out. I was out in the airboat last Saturday, just off Samoset and noticed that while going along at 15mph or so the ice was cracking loudly in front of us as we drove, we could see constant cracking happening 20 feet or so in front of us as we traveled. The boat weighs 2000lbs+/- at most, thinking of a truck going in the same area (which one did, it passed me) scares the hell out of me. The ice was plenty thick to carry the load, but still...Who knows when a fault of sorts in the ice could give way and send ya swimmin'...

[Mee-n-Mac]

I have to say the whole trucks on ice thing freaks me out. I was out in the airboat last Saturday, just off Samoset and noticed that while going along at 15mph or so the ice was cracking loudly in front of us as we drove, we could see constant cracking happening 20 feet or so in front of us as we traveled. The boat weighs 2000lbs+/- at most, thinking of a truck going in the same area (which one did, it passed me) scares the hell out of me. The ice was plenty thick to carry the load, but still...Who knows when a fault of sorts in the ice could give way and send ya swimmin'...

In a word - yup. :) I tell ya as an entreprenurial type of guy I predict some financial reward for the person who can devise a simple, relatively cheap method of measuring ice thickness ahead of a moving vehicle (be car, snomobile or whatever). Even a walking stick measurer for the person walking about would be good (this I can do). I know radar can do it (been done) but it's not "cheap". I've looked into ultrasonics but that method doesn't seem reliable enough. Yes, build and sell this "better mousetrap" and I forsee a McMansion and fancy boat in your future. :coolsm: