Pond Inlet is going to start freezing over in about a week.
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Good Example is Ilulissat, Greenland. Was Ice Free last week now impassable..
http://www.hotel-arctic.gl/files/webcam/webcamshot.jpg
Too bad, so sad. How about we all pass the hat and buy them an ice pick so they can chip their way through the thin, soft, slushy, rotten, decayed first year ice 😉
Chipping their way to Pond Inlet should be easy for this crew of seasoned adventurers (at least according to Reggie … and he knew everything).
The drop in temps at and near North Pole is astonishing.
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php
Actually that amazing and unexplained drop seems over, at least for now. Temperatures on that DMI graph are popping back up, though not to normal and still below freezing.
The temperature appears to have risen 2°K in two days. At the current rate, the North Pole will be hot enough to melt lead in less than a year.
Re Freeze looks likely Steve, 144 hours from now there will be snow, cold and lots of wind.
http://mag.ncep.noaa.gov/Image.php?fhr=144&image=data%2Fgfs%2F06%2Fgfs_namer_144_850_temp_mslp_precip.gif&model=gfs&area=namer¶m=850_temp_mslp_precip&group=Model+Guidance&imageSize=M
Ive looked at the GPS track…why cant they continue to beachstroll in -10 ? Will go faster if they leave the boat but…hey its a free world.
A long beach stroll might just end badly for them. The beaches function as the polar bear highway, and a cute cuddly little white polie bear would be more than happy to take a snack break. With the wading team as both the appetizer and the main course.
Help is not far behind, Rescue Ship? followed their tracks http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/shipposition.phtml?call=OS8154 and seems to be in that area they talked about the Burning Hills. Maybe someone going to stake a clam there. http://mainstreamlastfirst.com/the-smoking-hills-of-franklin-bay/
Stake a clam? Do we have vampire clams now?
Oh, I hope not! 😉
It’s not for everyone, but I am very fond of steak and clams. Rare for the steak and steamed for the clams with tons of butter for both. People and cardiologists tend to light torches and pick up pitchforks when I propose it for a BBQ, though.
I always make a distinction between people and cardiologists also. 😉
OS8154 (Le Manguier) is past that. They’re booking–on opposite side of Parry Peninsula at Paulatuk. http://lemanguier.typepad.fr/le_manguier/
They have to realize that Pond Inlet is an unreachable destination considering their 30 -35 km daily average pace. There is no way they can row through October to get there. They must be working to a Plan B goal; they just haven’t advertised it. If they turn north to cross the strait in the next day or so, then they think they can make Cambridge Bay. With favorable winds, they probably can.
They get about 6 hours of twilight/dark each day, and that increases by about 15 minutes each night. The warmth of the day radiates away into the night sky and the sun stays low even at midday. Winter snow came early and already covers the northern region of the archipelago. This ain’t 2012; they’ll be seeing snow too, come September.
I think that, for a while now, the goal has been duration, not distance.
I agree. Their excuse will be, we started late due to such and such a delay, had the wind work against use early on, lost our anchor due to an iceberg which forced us to follow the shore, and all those delays pushed us too late in the season. They will not mention anything about the ice extent compared to last year.
Wasn’t the iceberg not supposed to exist in the first place?
Otter: “Wasn’t the iceberg not supposed to exist in the first place?”
Ditto
If they get frozen in they may well durate into a permanent Arctic land mark, or at least into a steaming hissing pile of polie bear scat. I hope that isn’t Reggie’s idea for his ice melting blow torch.
Somehow all this AGW BS seems so like those ignorant missionaries in the 1800s who went running around the Globe slapping loin cloths and Mu-Mus on what the missionaries saw as ignorant savages. I bet that the missionaries of the day saw those people as being in danger of perishing from the Global warming of their time, Hell’s fire.
I guess Warmism is a religion. However it not a very comforting or useful one.
The Canadian Archipelago is about to have a MAJOR upgrade in the amount of MYI for the 2013-2014 season. It will look very much like the long term average.
Of course, this is the new, decayed, rotten, CO2-polluted MYI. Not like that other, old-style, pure MYI your grandfather used to talk about.
Reblogged this on Climate Ponderings.
http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/08/17/early-snow-expected-in-alaska-unseasonably-cold-air-mass/
“Early Snow Expected in Alaska — ‘UNSEASONABLY COLD AIR MASS’ “
So will these idiots blame the early cold on global warming?
Everything is the result of GLO-BULL warming (or Bush) 😉
Global Changiness.
No Jimmy, the correct excuse is extreme weather due to climate change. Remember to use the phrase that matches whatever bit of weather you’re trying to blame on carbon fuels.
It’s Global Wronging, not hot, not cold, gut feeling science fiction.
The boys are truly clueless about how ignorant they are of everything about the Arctic.
Perfect Greenie attitude, bowing and scraping at Gaia’s feet.
All of this is true but thanks to their efforts (judging by my own sampling) pop corn sales have soared! I confess to checking in several times a day to watch this train wreck. It’s the best snow opera we have had since that ship got caught in the ice and had to be rescued.
The longer it goes on, the more I’m enjoying it – it’s like car-crash tv.
My estimate is that they’ve got roughly as far to go in the next fortnight (to Cambridge Bay) as they went in the last fortnight – only with less daylight. Does anyone know when Cambridge Bay is likely to ice up?
I tweeted to them some time ago the following:
@lastfirst2013 Going into polar bear country with a loaded shotgun and the willingness to use it seems a little anti-bear. Disagree?
*****************************************
Have yet to receive a response, but it was really only ten days ago. They’re probably just working on the wording. These things are delicate.
Plus, at some point they are going to have to make a left turn…and head right into it
..it’s blocked
Ludicrous to not have 4 rowing stations as a safety factor.
They could try having the extra 2 guys sitting on the 2 working rower’s laps.
See if that helps stimulate the pulling.
It’s not even designed for the two rowers to row well: look at it. http://mainstreamlastfirst.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/image2.png
The guy’s got a panel to bash his head and elbows on, and his oars are a foot above the water.
For a second there I thought I detected double entendre.
When you have a small boat with 4 guys pulling together it begs for innuendo.
I don’t see any place for a cox.
That’s a hard one to handle.
This is a good tracking site for the rowers along with rational discussion.
http://www.dehavelle.com
I hope you’re not implying we’re not rational?
I should have said “along with surprisingly rational discussion”.
Didn’t you die a few centuries ago?
You should’ve said “along with more rational discussion” because “more” is nicely ambiguous.
The boys are going to pass up on a balmy day at the beach in Kugluktuk.
With global warming I envision this:
http://pzrservices.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/10/11/1982_sea_ski_ad.jpg
Perhaps they don’t like copper or copper tans.
Seem to be attempting a crossing to the northern shore.
Pull hard guys.
Lets go surfin, everybody go surfin………..
No wait, nuts to surfin!
the beach looks more like this…..
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Lifeguard_Station_at_Kugluktuk.jpg
A down jacket hoodie day at the beach…
sun block not required.
Don’t forget the Ozone hole above the Arctic
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2089537/Ozone-hole-Arctic-actually-caused-COLD-weather.html
The boy in the red cap looks like he’s getting ready to take a whiz behind the building.
I think he fell on his bike and is taking inventory.
Ouch !
Latitude,
There appears to be a ghost of a young girl in the yellow shed on the left.
I can’t make sense of what is going on there.
Any thoughts ?
There are two holes (or one hole split by a vertical timber beam) in the far wall of the shed, so you see the girl through the wall.
So why don’t I see the beach, the water, and the terrain behind her ?
You don’t? I do. I see the blue of the sea by her head: I see the blue of the sea by her arm, and the brown of the beach by her hand. You’ve got to zoom in. It’s a bit freaky at first – it looks like a bad photoshop job, but it resolves itself.
As I zoomed in the optical illusion cleared up.
I see the holes now.
Thanks.
They’ll be forced to quit at Cambridge Bay…
They won’t quit. They will keep going. When they get to the end of Victoria Island, they will either be blocked by ice and have to turn back, or they will find the ice has melted and head north, only to have to turn back later.
Uptick today in DMI
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php
That uptick is only halfway back to normal, and is largely due to the southerly flow around a gale east of Iceland pushing warm air towards the pole. That warm flow is far, far away from our rowers. It’s on the wrong side of Greenland.
Even the odd leftie has balls These guys have them.
Insanity/Religious zealotry should never be confused with having balls. 😉
When they’re forced to try and pull a Shackleton, around day 158 one of them will say, “Hey, can I have his left ball if you’re not going to eat it?”
http://youtu.be/aFjp5DBQnlw
Did you catch their comment on the jetskiers aiming for Greenland, then on to London? Travelling at 50km to 70km/hr? At “night”, with lights on?
Nice death wish. Titanic, anyone?
They may be stewpid and misguided, but they have sizeable cojones. They’ve crossed the strait and almost on the north shore. Since they’re in open water, they’re making time, so they’ll be on shore shortly, just in time to meet the friendly Poley bears on Victoria Island.
What kind of
winewhine goes best withroerower tartare?I’m thinking something white, with a big nose – a sharp apairoteef, then lashings of Claret of course, and perhaps ending with a shot or two.
I’d have to see it to not believe they are being towed/assisted.
They’re headed ‘strait’ toward Lady Franklin Airport. (I don’t believe that’s where they’re headed; they’re going to try and keep going–to Cambridge Bay.)
They are indeed headed toward Cambridge bay. By the way, you can take a tour of the greater Cambridge Bay metropolitan area by looking it up on Google Maps and selecting street view.
Lots of speedboats, jetskis and quad bikes there.
No Stopping the Love Affair With Arctic Joule:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfOTZet5GKc
Pedal to the metal… There’ll Be No Turning Back.
kbray, I tried. I really did. But I had to cut it at 1:05. 🙂
You gotta know when to fold ’em.
Gene McDaniels had a few hits in the early sixties.
He died 2 years ago.
He had a good voice.
Burt Bacharach helped him early on.
Thanks for filling in the blanks; although I remember the song “A Hundred Pounds of Clay” I did not know that song was his. I had never heard of the chap.
Here’s an overall look at basin temps today. Pretty chilly stuff away from the pole now.
http://iabp.apl.washington.edu/DAILYMAPS/dailymap.jpg
Wouldn’t you much rather have them be unable to complete their journey because of ice blocking their path than to give up with nothing but clear water in front of them? If you want people to have to confront the irrationality of their beliefs, you have to let them take the consequences.
Meanwhile, the kayakers, who were once way ahead of the rowers, have taken a couple of days rest and have taken a much longer route than the rowers.
They have two different destinations. The kayakers are not going to Pond Inlet.
Are they apostles of CAGW, demanding the destruction of Western Civilization, or are they just paid jocks, mercenaries in the war against Western Civilization? I don’t care; any fate is fine with me. Eaten by polar bears, frozen into the face of Gaia, whatever.
Bond: “Do you expect me to talk?”
Goldfinger: “No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die.”
Could someone post an updated progress map. I cannot get the tracker on their site to show anything.
Latitude : 68.47553, Longitude : -113.27179 Time : 19 August 2013 03:55:47 Just do a search for 68.47553,-113.27179 in Google/G. Earth/ G. Maps.
Icbw, but there doesn’t look to be much in the way beaches along there.
They have made it to Victoria Island and are now rowing along the coast toward Cambridge Bay.
The last GPS ping their website is giving mes they’re still sitting on the beach adjacent to Lady Franklin Airport where they arrived first last night. http://mainstreamlastfirst.com/?slide=home
The boys are sitting off the coast at the former Dew Line site of PIN 3. Another hundred miles, they get to PIN 4 and then another hundred will put them in CAM Main, where if they are smart, they will beach their boat, buy a ticket on a southbound 737 and wait for Oprah to call them so they can be famous.
Chinese ship on it’s way to cover the North West Passage.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/05daa11e-0274-11e3-880d-00144feab7de.html#axzz2cQsstkHH
Current position: http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/default.aspx?
oldmmsi=477265600&zoom=10&olddate=lastknown
If they make some speed they could give the rowers a hike.
North _east_ passage.
Something to post on their facebook page . . .
“A novice polar explorer desperately tried to stay alive by hugging his friend for warmth as they were “squeezed by two walls of snow” in an Arctic storm, an inquest heard today.
Phil Goodeve-Docker, 30, from Ealing, had been attempting a 370-mile unsupported charity walk across Greenland with friends Andy Norman and Roan Hackney when they were hit by a “white-out” and 160 mph winds two days into the 35-day expedition.”
He should have stuck closer to the Greenland Golf & Country Club.
Or maybe he was trying to make human flavored Polar Bear popsicles ?
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/novice-polar-explorer-froze-to-death-as-he-hugged-friend-in-bid-to-survive-8774478.html
Speaking of Franklin Point, I just hope the Last Best First Worst team doesn’t turn out to be like the Greely Expedition–we know what happened–some of those sailors began to eat each other. :O
24 hours later they’re still at the Lady Franklin Airport. I wouldn’t be hanging around the named for and the Lady Franklin Bay (Greely) Expedition too long. It eats me up to think about it.
Margaret, please pass the popcorn. 🙂
Do you want butter and salt?
The rowers could use some butter in their seat bottom channels.
It helps the sliding action.
Whale blubber could substitute.
They have enough salt.
Butter, or Marge?
Why yes please. Thank yo! 😀
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=XI_4HtIJYDM#t=195
The end is near:
http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/travel/long-haul/northwest-passage-diary-we-needed-mother-nature-to-help-she-hasn-t-1.1501355
Our waders will make Cambridge Bay, and that’s it.
“However, we will not make it to Pond Inlet. Though the reasons are beyond our control, it still hurts.” You can’t control stupid.