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News Flash: Ice-out on the Tanana River at Nenana, Alaska!
May 7, 2002
May 7, 2002 at 9:27 p.m. Alaska Standard Time was the official breakup time for ice on the Tanana River! Check it out:
That means another bull's-eye winner in our 2002 contest!
CONGRATULATIONS to the team called "The Village People" from Christine Jamieson's class at Ernestown Secondary School in Odessa, Ontario Canada. These 12th grade geography students nailed it when they predicted May 7 for ice-out on the Tanana River!
This compares with ice-out dates of May 8th last year and May 1st in 2000. In
addition to 2000, 2001, and 2002, recent May breakups for the Tanana River include
May 5, 1996 and May 14, 1992.
Two More to Go!
There's still ice at Hudson Bay and the Chuckchi Sea, from where Point Hope teacher Sheila Gaquin wrote on May 2: "We've still got a great deal of sea ice, though some leads have opened and whaling has begun. Our school closes May 17th, and we definitely will not have ice out by then. It will be closer to the 4th of July, which is sort of the standard ice out date." Send your entries FAST for
Challenge Question #4:
"What's your prediction for ice-out dates in each of Journey North's six (now five!) official observation posts?"
(To respond
to this question, please follow the instructions below.)
Remember to check the Winners Page for official contest results, which will be posted
here as they happen!
For help in making your predictions, see:
How to Respond to Today's Challenge Question:
Please answer ONLY ONE question in each e-mail message!
1. Address an e-mail message to: jn-challenge-spring@learner.org
2. IMPORTANT: In the Subject Line of your message write: Challenge Question #4.
3. In the body of the message, give your answer to today's question.
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