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2010 080211 DO you know what 15 degrees below zero looks like?


             Taken at various windows at Berts house
 

                                  A few have been "enhanced".
















      
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  1. A Slow ReadSunday, January 3, 2010 at 11:04:00 AM CST

    icy barbed wire..but oh so pretty....

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  2. Jeanette RogersSunday, January 3, 2010 at 11:07:00 AM CST

    So cold, but so beautiful!

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  3. Reconstituted TeenagerSunday, January 3, 2010 at 12:25:00 PM CST

    Ice crystals are so cool because they're so unique. I think I saw Bert's profile in one those pictures - LOL!

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  4. Bert ChickenSunday, January 3, 2010 at 12:29:00 PM CST

    Aslow - Hmmm, the cold actually feels like barb wire too.

    sally - A lot prettier when looking at them from the inside.

    recon - Unique, and very temporary. No, that wasn't Bert's profile, it was BERT, He's frozen.

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  5. Duchamp -Sunday, January 3, 2010 at 1:14:00 PM CST

    Looks like very cold, & possibly very angry pine limbs!

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  6. Becky MarquezSunday, January 3, 2010 at 2:51:00 PM CST

    these are beautiful photos!

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  7. Iri AniSunday, January 3, 2010 at 3:10:00 PM CST

    Never lived anywhere quite that cold - thankfully.

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  8. Donna BoSunday, January 3, 2010 at 3:46:00 PM CST

    Oh pretty! yes I do know what that looks like. It was zero today, even got up to 4 above and it actually felt pretty nice out.

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  9. Lois HSunday, January 3, 2010 at 4:11:00 PM CST

    Going to show my total ignorance here - - - Bert, are these ice crystals attached to glass, to grass, barbed wire ( do you have barbed wire there I only know barbed wire was a NZ invention) , attached to something else????

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  10. Faye RSunday, January 3, 2010 at 9:00:00 PM CST

    These are so beautiful! Goes right along with the snowflakes. How could anything be so intricate?

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  11. Ieneke van HoutenSunday, January 3, 2010 at 9:20:00 PM CST

    Brrrr. We used to get frosted-over windows with the prettiest ice crystals on them. We called them Ice Flowers.

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  12. Bert ChickenSunday, January 3, 2010 at 9:48:00 PM CST


    Duchamp - Hmm, it does look a bit like a deadly weapon.

    love2 - Only when looking at them from the inside.

    Irani - My hometown (Duluth MN) is even colder, much colder.

    donna - At 4 above, not too likely to see frost like this. I got above 0 here too, but -10 tonight.

    loish - They form on the inside of windows, Glass is cold and the inside moist air freezes on the windows... (Storm windows on outside, colder)

    chickie - Natures art... how can you beat it?

    ienvan - Ice flowers... such a nice name for such a harsh thing, but they are often very very pretty.



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  13. Deb OrahMonday, January 4, 2010 at 12:59:00 AM CST

    How incredibly beautiful!!!

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  14. Bert ChickenMonday, January 4, 2010 at 6:49:00 AM CST


    Debo - Natures art is always my favorite.

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  15. Iri AniMonday, January 4, 2010 at 7:19:00 PM CST

    lol so I have heard. I have even seen pictures of giant ice brrr. 'Tis a cute bridge you have there, I now have little notepads with pictures of the bridge from when my neighbours were visiting their son there! They really enjoyed themselves btw.

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  16. Bert ChickenMonday, January 4, 2010 at 9:21:00 PM CST

    Iriani - Duluth is really quite a beautiful place... well, the setting anyway. The "City" is ok too, a lot of early American settlement and Indian history. Duluth (pop 100,000) behaves like a small rural town, not unusual to know half the town, friendly, peaceful, quiet, etc. I'd love to live there again but the economy isn't booming... just doing ok.
    ......I got to ride up on the Aerial Bridge years ago...a rare privilege and also made many trips in and out of the ship canal under the bridge. The bridge had to open for my Fathers boat but not for mine. A family friend (Long gone) was an underwater diver who poured cement for the piers. I have one of the original blueprints for the bridge...a treasure of mine. Someday soon I'll post a blog... the many moods of Lake Superior and the Aerial bridge... winter, summer, storms, fog, sunrise, moonrise, etc... kinda interesting.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_Lift_Bridge

    also here's some live cams to watch the ocean freighters and lake boat traffic and Duluth harbor and lake activity (there may still be some boat traffic until it freezes over)
    http://www.lsmma.com/webcam.htm
    http://www.duluthharborcam.com/
    http://www.wdio.com/article/stories/s134074.shtml?cat=10362
    http://www.wdio.com/article/stories/S134007.shtml?cat=10362
    http://airstreamcomm.net/~blbeast/dul/duluth.html

    Also here's two live cams of my Bayfield Wisconsin harbor... My favorite place...My cabin is just up the hill from the harbor, 600 feet above the lake (nice view of lake and Apostle Islands).
    http://www.kerrart.com/bayfieldwisconsa.html (Ferry landing)
    http://www.kerrart.com/bayfieldwisconsi.html (Harbor and Ice road to Madeline Island)

    Can you tell..... I like the area.

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  17. -`๑´- Tatiana -`๑´-Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at 5:35:00 AM CST

    That looks cold, but oh so beautiful!! *Smiles* Can't wait to see that kind of thing myself (Roll on Feb!)!

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  18. Bert ChickenTuesday, January 5, 2010 at 7:13:00 AM CST


    MythicalU - Yes they can be very beautiful... but best viewed from the inside.

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  19. Winand HessWednesday, January 6, 2010 at 1:30:00 AM CST

    now, if you had properly insulated windows (energy conservation),
    this would not happen.
    but then, - you live in a chicken coop ... ;-)

    cool pics!

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  20. Bert ChickenWednesday, January 6, 2010 at 8:31:00 AM CST

    win - Frost can be quite beautiful, but...it means it's cold outside, brrrrr
    Actually, they are all brand new Anderson thermopane windows. The frost depends on a lot of factors, Humidity, air movement, inside vs outside temp etc.
    In this case the frost is prone to form because we have triple glazed (Inside
    storm-windows) which means inside moist air escapes into the space between the inside storm window and outside thermopane windows and that also results in the surface of thermopane being much colder than it would be without the storm-window, and with zero air circulation it encourages frost to form on the thermopane. The inside glass must "leak" so the moisture can escape back into the house when weather warms, otherwise the window casing could eventually rot from the trapped moisture.
    ......If we simply removed the inside storm windows the frost would NOT form on the thermopane because of warmer glass temperature (means greater heat loss) and it would also provide additional air circulation. The net effect of the storm window results in less heat transfer loss to outside. There's little more we could do to make the windows more efficient (except maybe to move South lol, or board them up).

    The coop is another story. We will soon be building a new house and it will be patterned after the Solar Powered Chicken Coop design. The coop is super efficient in all ways, and very shiny clean. With radiant floor heat (very rarely needed all winter) it always stays above freezing and costs about $5 (is metered) per year to heat (heated only nights when 15-20 below). All winter day & night it's usually 45-50 in the coop (Free heat), even warmer in the nests, and the solar aviary gets up to about 80+ deg during the day, 45 on cloudy days (free heat, water not frozen).
    .....All coops should be built like this... and so should houses.

    I'm very pleased with the efficiency of the coop, better than my expectations.


    SEE LINK - COOP DESIGN

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  21. Winand HessWednesday, January 6, 2010 at 11:44:00 AM CST

    solar-powered is the way to go,
    especially here in Southern Cal.
    Unfortunately, our power company doesn't pay for the surplus generated :((

    oh, I have stayed in -40 degrees (Heilongjiang / Siberian border)

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  22. Katherine RodgersFriday, February 25, 2011 at 3:45:00 PM CST

    It was nearly that cold here for a few days . . . at least ours is short-lived. We didn't get ice this year, however . . . Not that I'm complaining.

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  23. Frani *****Saturday, February 26, 2011 at 2:28:00 PM CST

    Pretty photos Bert. I haven't seen frost on the inside windows since I was a child. Not even steam on the inside if one has thermal storm windows ... seeing this iceflakes was another trip down memory lane for me.

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  24. Bert ChickenSaturday, February 26, 2011 at 2:49:00 PM CST

    Blackmoon - I wouldn't complain if the temp stayed above.zero... not too bad then.

    fransform - That particular time, all the windows had frost.. our inside humidity must have been a bit high at the time... usually don't see much frost on the windows... but it was pretty.

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