Great ice-sickle photography. Best I have yet seen.
34 inch icicle and a packed snow ball. Batter up !
DAN Phillips wrote:
I was attending Worsham college during '76 & '77. One Tuesday I went to the Brookfield Zoo, the temp was -21. I went to take pictures of the polar bears, they were having a ball. If I remember correctly only three people had checked in that day. Me being one of them. I would take a few pictures and go back into the shelter house. I did this repeatedly. What a great time!
Thank you Dan! You may have seen Brookfield is about to reopen to the public? They have a new female polar bear to create a couple once she gets used to the place.
JRiepe wrote:
Some very nice shots. When I lived in the Chicago area I would knock the icicles down so the weight of them wouldn't pull the gutters down. It was 61 degrees in southern Illinois yesterday.
Thank you Jerry! We were in the 50s and plenty of people out in shorts. The Mayor officially reopened the lakefront this week for the first time since March 2020.
Thank you junglejim1949, Lakeman, Dan, randave2001, Jerry, Hereford, Properframe! Over the years I've heard reports of falling ice downtown, causing serious and even deadly accidents. Maybe their warning ropes are better positioned or they clean the ice better as I can't think of a recent winter with any of these accidents. Hopefully, that idea is correct.
Wrigleyville will always be "Loserville".................
Love the images and comments. Thanks for sharing 😀
CHG_CANON wrote:
Icicles can form during bright, sunny, but subfreezing weather, when ice or snow is melted by sunlight or some other heat source (such as a poorly insulated building), and refreezes as it drips off under exposed conditions.
Frozen Wrigleyville by
Paul Sager, on Flickr
The temperature at O’Hare International Airport, the Chicago's official recording site, reached 33F at 11:51 AM, Sunday Feb 21, 2021. This reading was the first time the temperature reached above 32F after 17 consecutive days of below freezing conditions. That's 400
consecutive hours below freezing.
Frozen WrigleyvilleChicago’s coldest temperature was recorded on Jan 20, 1985, at -27F. The city's record number of consecutive days below freezing is 43 days set between Dec 28, 1976 until Feb 8, 1977.
Frozen WrigleyvilleThis set of images were captured in RAW using an EOS 5DIII and EF 24-105mm f/4L IS II USM. The files were processed in Adobe Lightroom 6 with an HDR effect from Topaz Adjust.
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Great series! I enjoyed looking at your icicles.
b top gun wrote:
Wrigleyville will always be "Loserville".................
What a totally unnecessary and nasty comment!
and can pull down your guttering system..
Nice story of winter, Paul. #2 is special for sure.
When I lived near Saint Louis,We almost had icicles in our military houses- what memories
Thank you
Moondoggie, JustJill, buckbrush, Valenta, John, Susan, Joe! There was a news report this evening in Chicago of ice falling off an apartment building and crushing a car in the parking lot. So much for assigned parking.
We'll reach the 50s this weekend.
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