Issuma: Winter on Lake Ontario

Rochester, December 2010

Winter has arrived.  Especially in buffalo which got its first "lake effect" blizzard.  Not far from there is Rochester where Issuma was hauled for rigging work after a slow and picturesque trip up the Hudson through the Erie Canal, and then the Oswego Canal.  check out the pictures on Issuma's  blog, to the right.

Winter comes to the North River

January 9, 2010 was the first day of ice.  Here's the slide show - Hudson River Ice 2010

January 4 - Winter has come to New York

Failed winters are the bane of life in New York.

Winter means ice in the Hudson as the North River is commonly called.

Today winter came to New York.

At the Execution Rocks Buoy three miles east of City Island, outside Hempstead Harbor, just off Sands Point at 8 AM the wind is west gusting to 17.5 kts, it is 28 F, and the apparent temperature is 17.2 F.

Modest sheets of ice calm the North River outside our window and fragments bunch along the shore.