Messing
About in Boats, Boots, and Byways:
Archive
of PorchPix log entry of
07
January 04
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Lake-effect
draws line in the sky
07
January 04:
In Buffalo, in winter, the line between sun and snow is sometimes
drawn in the sky, written large for all to see.
This
morning, with temperatures in the low teens, the brilliant blue
sky south of our house sat above an ominous line of slowly churning,
southeast moving clouds fresh from the Lake Erie lake-effect
snow machine.
The
lake-effect zone south of Buffalo has gotten more than a foot
in the past day from this line of lake-effect clouds.
Looking
southwest from our porch: Not only are these clouds dramatic,
they also are close by. |
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Looking south from the porch. |
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| I
had an errand, so I took the camera and got this one in
north Buffalo while sitting in the truck, which is kinda
like taking pix from the porch. |
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| I
took the longer way home so I could take a few pix at the
foot of Ontario Street. This is the Niagara River looking
southwest toward the International Railroad Bridge, then
the Peace Bridge further on. |
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were out the truck window, too. Here, ice has formed on
a coiled line near the marina at the foot of Ontario Street.
Old pieces of piling sport ice caps, too. The red thing
is the guard rail of the parking lot there. |
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| On
up a few hundred yards, I went looking for some birds. These
two were bobbing in the water, which had to be barely above
freezing. No problem for them. |
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| Same
two bobbers. |
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