In article , Paul Tomblin
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Contact NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland OH.
The were giving out Icing DVD's at Sun N Fun this past spring.
They fly a Twin Otter out of Cleveland every winter, searching for ice.
Lake Erie is on the boundary for high pressure/cold fronts blasting off
the Canadian Plains and low pressure/warm fronts moving up from the
Gulf of Mexico. The fronts frequently stall and become stationary in
the Ohio-Indianna vicinity. If you are on the warm side, ice can be
found near the boundary as the cold upper air overflows the warm lower
air. This may be 100 nm ahead of the front.
Ice is elusive, but if the conditions are right, it can hang around as
it did for four days last winter December 31 - January 3 in Southern
Ohio/Northern Kentucky. An east-west cold front stalled along the Ohio
River late in the afternoon of December 31. Temperature/dew points
hovered between 34 and 27 degrees for the next three days.
Precipitation in the form of fog, snow, rain, freezing rain were
prevelent for the duration.
I sat for two days in Mount Sterling KY before driving home to Columbus
OH. I drove back to Mount Sterling two days later when the weather
cleared.