David Armstrong, a Merry Christmas to you. I always enjoy your contributions to the Orkney mail. Alex ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Armstrong" <davidrli@iinet.net.au> To: <orkney@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 5:33 PM Subject: Re: [ORKNEY] Freezing temps in Orkney Meg, While the freshwater Lochs may freeze over, it would be extremely unlikely for a bay or other saltwater inlets to freeze because of the Gulf Stream which keeps British waters so much warmer than the equivalent latitude on the Labrador coast of Canada. Orkney is 59º N, while New York is 40.45º N and Chicago 41.45º N. Cape Farewell, the southern tip of Greenland is 60º N. Currently in Perth it's a lovely + 20º C (+68º F), nice and mild for this time of year. Merry Saturnalia everyone http://www.geocities.com/sisteroffortune/Saturnalia.htm David Armstrong Maylands, Western Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: James Irvine To: orkney@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 8:43 AM Subject: [ORKNEY] Freezing temps in Orkney Meg: During the 1740s ice formed over the Loch of Stenness sufficiently thickly for Murdoch Mackenzie to use the flat surface for measuring the base line for his survey. James Irvine. > Message: 9 > Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:37:41 -0600 > From: Meg Greenwood <scotquester@bartnet.net> > Subject: [ORKNEY] Freezing temps in Orkney > To: orkney@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <494EC535.2020308@bartnet.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > My ancestors [HALCRO, WILSON] lived on The Breck in Orphir. With the > sea so close, do you suppose they ever saw the bay ice over ? What > about those inlets nearby - the Loch of Kirbister and maybe the Loch of > Stennes. It has to stay below freezing a long while for thick enough ice > to form over inland [freshwater] ponds to ice-skate on. Being seawater, > does it ever freeze at the surface ? > > I just heard from my daughter in Chicago, windchill is -40F. That's > just too much for this Orklahoman to fathom. I'd have made a lousy > pioneer. MEG ------------------ List Archives, information on contacting list administrator, Subscribing and UnSubscribing can be found at: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/SCT/ORKNEY.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORKNEY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Same here and snow - very unusual in Victoria. Blake Allan ----- Original Message ----- From: "H. Alex Cromarty" <socara@telus.net> To: <orkney@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 6:12 PM Subject: Re: [ORKNEY] Freezing temps in Orkney David Armstrong, a Merry Christmas to you. I always enjoy your contributions to the Orkney mail. Alex ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Armstrong" <davidrli@iinet.net.au> To: <orkney@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 5:33 PM Subject: Re: [ORKNEY] Freezing temps in Orkney Meg, While the freshwater Lochs may freeze over, it would be extremely unlikely for a bay or other saltwater inlets to freeze because of the Gulf Stream which keeps British waters so much warmer than the equivalent latitude on the Labrador coast of Canada. Orkney is 59º N, while New York is 40.45º N and Chicago 41.45º N. Cape Farewell, the southern tip of Greenland is 60º N. Currently in Perth it's a lovely + 20º C (+68º F), nice and mild for this time of year. Merry Saturnalia everyone http://www.geocities.com/sisteroffortune/Saturnalia.htm David Armstrong Maylands, Western Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: James Irvine To: orkney@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 8:43 AM Subject: [ORKNEY] Freezing temps in Orkney Meg: During the 1740s ice formed over the Loch of Stenness sufficiently thickly for Murdoch Mackenzie to use the flat surface for measuring the base line for his survey. James Irvine. > Message: 9 > Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:37:41 -0600 > From: Meg Greenwood <scotquester@bartnet.net> > Subject: [ORKNEY] Freezing temps in Orkney > To: orkney@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <494EC535.2020308@bartnet.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > My ancestors [HALCRO, WILSON] lived on The Breck in Orphir. With the > sea so close, do you suppose they ever saw the bay ice over ? What > about those inlets nearby - the Loch of Kirbister and maybe the Loch of > Stennes. It has to stay below freezing a long while for thick enough ice > to form over inland [freshwater] ponds to ice-skate on. Being seawater, > does it ever freeze at the surface ? > > I just heard from my daughter in Chicago, windchill is -40F. That's > just too much for this Orklahoman to fathom. I'd have made a lousy > pioneer. MEG ------------------ List Archives, information on contacting list administrator, Subscribing and UnSubscribing can be found at: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/SCT/ORKNEY.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORKNEY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------ List Archives, information on contacting list administrator, Subscribing and UnSubscribing can be found at: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/SCT/ORKNEY.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORKNEY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message