Tag Archives: Chicago
Thunderstorms and “spring is coming” sky
Traffic when the Lake Shore Drive bridge cracked
On the morning of Monday, February 11, a CDOT worker discovered a crack in the metal of the northbound lane of the Lake Shore Drive bridge over the Chicago River that made it impassible.
Later that day, here’s what northbound rush-hour traffic looked like south of Millennium Park.
Southbound traffic was unaffected.
Winter day (February)
Yesterday’s short-lived ice “storm”
“Storm” seems a strong word for the quiet calm of an accumulation of ice, even when there’s a trace of precipitation still coming down. I must remember to look up the ice storm in western New York that shut the area down for a day or two. It was beautiful, quiet . . . and destructive.
Sun and ice
I remember Jack Frost visiting our windows when I was growing up. I don’t see him often here. During the January 2019 polar vortex, he stopped by too briefly.
Sea smoke on Lake Michigan at -21ºF
It got colder this morning before it got warmer. The sea smoke was curling and eddying in interesting ways.
Sea smoke on Lake Michigan at -20ºF
Sea smoke
Old Michigan steams like a young man’s dreams
Gordon Lightfoot, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”
I love this lyric and use it every time I see sea smoke on Lake Michigan. Temperature at 7:05 a.m.: -2ºF.
Update 1/26/2019: With 2x video for movement until sunrise.
Night above, day below
At sunset, night pushes day to retreat below the horizon, with one final burst of glorious rays.
