Wabash River Jan. 28, 2014

A day after temperatures reached a low of about -12 deg. F.  Ice has jammed up at the Brown St. location and the river frozen over upstream from there.  Wabash River, Jan. 28, 2014, at Lafayette. 


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Wabash River Jan. 26, 2014

Wabash River looking upstream from the pedestrian bridge at Lafayette, Jan. 26, 2014.  Ice floes are still floating downstream.


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Wabash River Jan. 23, 2014

Wabash River on Jan. 23, 2014, looking upstream from the pedestrian bridge at Lafayette.  The river has receded from the flood levels of the previous week and cold weather is increasing the amount of ice floating on the river.  The ice on the surface is not jammed up yet and is still flowing downstream.

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Wabash River Jan. 13, 2014

Morning of January 13, 2014:  after a few days of above freezing temperatures the Wabash River is rising to flood stage and the ice on the river has broken up and is once again floating downstream.

Didn't get a photo this time.

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Wabash River Jan. 7, 2014

At the pedestrian bridge at Lafayette.  After a couple days of extremely low temperature, the ice floes have jammed up to form a layer of ice on the surface of the Wabash River.

Looking downstream from the bridge.

A bald eagle flies past the bridge headed downstream.  There were three adult and one immature in this group of bald eagles.

All pictures taken afternoon of January 7, 2014.

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Circumzenithal arc

Monday, January 6, 2014, extremely cold in the Lafayette area.  At about 11 am it was about -15 degrees F.  The sun was surrounded by a bright white halo, with two colorful sundogs on either side.  Brightest sundogs I have ever seen  I looked up and nearly overhead there was this circumzenithal arc.  First time I ever saw one of these. It brightened when it was crossed by the fast moving low clouds.

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Wabash River Jan. 5, 2014

Wabash River, looking upstream from the pedestrian bridge at Lafayette, Jan. 5, 2014, during a snowstorm that dropped about 8 inches of snow.

Wabash River looking downstream.

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Wabash River Jan. 3, 2014

Wabash River from the pedestrian bridge, Jan. 3, 2014. Subzero temperatures the night before helped create ice floes on the surface.  Temperature here about 10 degrees F.  A bald eagle is flying over Tapawingo Park but hard to see in this photo.  A second bald eagle was in the area flying in the same direction as the first but isn't in the field of view here.

Ice floes smash into the bridge abutment as they pass by the bridge.

Buried cars

These half-buried old cars are a landmark along the Wabash Heritage Trail.  On the Lafayette side of the river, north of the US 52 bridge.

Prairie Cordgrass

Prairie cordgrass (Spartina pectinata) at the pond at Munger Park.  Cordgrass has been at this location for at least eight years.  Picture taken Dec. 28, 2013.

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