Westchester Lagoon and Tyge: April 9th at 8:10 AM ADT.
Can you believe it??!!!! Another winter has passed, it's Spring (well "Breakup") and that can mean only one thing: It's time for the Annual Westchester Lagoon Ice Classic!
And as amazing as it seems, this year marks the fifth edition of our little contest. As in years past, it's time to break out the weather almanac, consult weather service predictions, check your horiscope, try to figure out if this is an El Nino or a La Nina year, read the tea leaves, ponder the state of the pussy willows, count the number of returning geese and assess the impact of global warming - all in an attempt to be the winner of this year's Ice Classic!!!!!
The rules (such as they are) are listed below. You've got a little bit of time to get your guess in, but don't wait too long. That ice could go out and leave you behind!
Rules:
- The participant must guess the date the ice goes out of the Lagoon.
- Each participant gets only one guess.
- Date for entries closes at 11:59 PM ADT on April 25th, 2006.
- A guess consists of just a date - no time. I refuse to install a timing tripod on the Lagoon.
- I will check the ice several times each day.
- ALL the ice must go out. It sometimes goes out in chunks - but chunks don't count.
- Participants must supply their e-mail address. This is so I can contact you if you win.
- If more than one person guesses the winning date, each winner will get a full prize - up to 4 winners. If there are more than 4 winners, the winning 4 will be selected based upon earliest entry into the contest.
- All judge's decisions are final and I (Steph) am the judge.
- Ah - the prize. It's a good one - a $25 gift certificate to Amazon.
Voting:
- Voting will be done through the comments feature.
- The voting comments button is at the bottom of this post.
- Click on the comments button and submit your vote.
- The cool thing is that everyone will be able to see everyone else's vote - hopefully there will be a lot of them.
Notes and Hints:
- Last year, the ice went out on April 29th and the winning prognosticator was Cory Gish.
- In 2004, the ice went out on May 4th a day on which we set a record high temperature of 66 degrees. The 2004 winners were Dr. L., and Phil.
- In 2003, the ice went out very very early, April 26th The 2003 winners were Brad and Phil.
- In 2002, the ice went out quite late: May 10th and the winners were Erin and Brad.
- I've not seen anyone walking on the over a week. The edges or the lagoon are somewhat slushy.
- The section of Chester Creek just East of Spenard Road is completely open. For you non-Anchorage-ites, Chester Creek feeds into the Lagoon.
- Currently there is one open leads at the East end of the Lagoon - it's 50 feet in diameter
- If I got to vote, I'd vote for April 28th - the same day I guessed last year.
So vote away.
CLICK ON THE COMMENT LINK RIGHT BELOW TO VOTE:
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