Last stop in the ice: a cargo ship that carried the Canadian flag got stuck on Wednesday on the frozen Lake Erie in the US state of New York. On Thursday, an ice breaker left to free the ship.
The 203 meter long Manitoulin had dropped a load of wheat and was on his way back to Sarnia, Ontario, when he got stuck in the ice that had formed off the coast of the port city of Buffalo, New York, at temperatures of around 30 degrees. had at least ten degrees.
“We have not had a strict winter for a long time. Now that we have one like that and people have not seen something like that for a long time, they wonder what is going on here, “quoted the AP Paul Angelillo news agency from the Coast Guard in Buffalo.
Normally cargo ships can navigate on the big lakes in the winter through surface ice, but occasionally they come across an ice sheet that is too hard or too thick to break through, Angelillo said.
More than half of Lake Erie is covered with ice
As the National Meteorological and Oceanographic Administration (NOAA) of the United States reported on Thursday, Lake Erie, 388 kilometers long and up to 92 kilometers wide – the border between Canada and the United States runs through it – currently an ice cream covering of 58 kilometers. percent.
Emergency state in various US states
The southern American states Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi declared the state of emergency halfway through the week due to a winter storm that was unusual for the region. The weather service recently warned of temperatures up to at least 30 degrees Celsius for the north of the US.
Source: Krone
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