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Old 03-16-2009, 05:58 AM   #22
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Originally Posted by corollaman View Post
I was looking out on Paugus Bay with binoculars today and could see heat waves rising from the ice! I can tell that ice is heating up and melting.
So you're saying the ice was warmer than the surrounding air?

What you see as "heat waves" has to do with the light refraction index of air at different temperatures. What you were witnessing was temperature related, but not exactly "heat waves rising from the ice".
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