{"id":16345,"date":"2024-12-07T16:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T21:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/?p=16345"},"modified":"2024-12-07T16:55:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T21:55:23","slug":"is-climate-change-reducing-the-duration-of-the-ice-cover-on-our-lakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/is-climate-change-reducing-the-duration-of-the-ice-cover-on-our-lakes\/16345","title":{"rendered":"Is Climate Change Reducing the Duration of the Ice Cover on our Lakes?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The answer is a definite yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the past 25 years, according to climate scientists, the ice cover of the Laurentian lakes has decreased by approximately 15% to 20% in terms of total duration, with ice melting beginning on average 30 days earlier than in previous centuries.
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This reduction is consistent with a trend observed in several regions of Quebec and Canada, where global warming has led to a significant reduction in the duration and thickness of lake ice, directly impacting aquatic ecosystems and seasonal human activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, these changes are anything but linear. Year-to-year variations are large and it takes a lot of data collected over decades to draw scientifically valid conclusions.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Golfing on Christmas Day in 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Over the past 15 years, I have noted the day Clear Lake , where I live, became covered with ice. The dates that come up most often are in the first half of December. But the differences are significant. Thus, in 2018, the lake was covered with ice on November 18. Many of you will remember the year 2015 when the brave played golf on Christmas Day. That year, the first serious snowfall occurred on December 29, and the lake froze the following year, on January 2, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are other dates when Clear Lake was covered with ice: in 2011 on December 18, in 2014 on December 2, in 2019 on November 30 and in 2020 on December 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I offer you this gallery of images that I have captured over the years which clearly illustrate why nature never ceases to amaze us.<\/p>\n\n\n