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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17853364/

Although today I live were I grew up, in Southern California, on the beach enjoying the nice sea breeze and sunshine, for a couple of years I lived in Northern Virgina/DC area and the Pittsburg/Morgantown area.

As I remember those winter storms, there would be situation where the ice would build up over time, sometimes several feet of snow pack. But then - as soon as the temperature went 1 degree above freezing, weeks of snow pack would start to melt all day. If the temperature dropped at night below freezing, then the melt might briefly stop, but it would restart the next day. I can remember one sunny day where about 4 feet of snow pack disappeared all in one day... water was everywhere.

The point I realized was that there is a huge difference between 32 degrees and 33 degrees!! At one temperature everthing stays frozen, and at the other everything melts - and it can all melt very very quickly.

Roaring waves is something the Lord said would be a problem, and I wouldn't doubt a rising sea level could be part of that.

Here is an interesting link I found:

http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica2/ask/new/Average_high_and_low_temperatures.txt

It says that in that part of Antartica they have an average high temperature of 36 degrees! That would mean that melting happens there. If global warming (due to sunshine, not man-made!) should increase this zone of melting very much, then couldn't huge amounts of ice all of the sudden come crashing into the sea??

- MM