| Students from Highlands school record GLOBE weekly atmospheric data at the Morton Arboretum. After examining the temperature data for the week, we go to Lake Marmo to check for freeze up. On December 4, 2013, Lake Marmo had a thin sheet of ice that was covering 100% of the lake. |
Lake Marmo is located a short distance from our Weather Station in the Morton Arboretum. We took 3 pictures of the lake from the site located at the red arrow and then we took 3 pictures of the lake from a bridge located at the yellow arrow.
You can click on the pictures below to see the full resolution. |
November 23, 2013 Lake Marmo had a thin coat over 80% of the lake. The lake was frozen to the 100% level in early December. The following pictures were taken on December 4, 2013.
 This is view "A" looking Southeast on December 4, 2013 |
 This is view "B" looking South on December 4, 2013 |
 This is view "C" looking Southwest on December 4, 2013 |
 This is view "D" looking West Northwest on December 4, 2013 |
 This is view "E" looking Northwest on December 4, 2013 |
 This is view "F" looking Northeast on December 4, 2013 |
 This is the data that we recorded on December 22, 2013. The air -soil Thermometer logs temperatures for 6 days. Day 6 on the far right has Minimum/Maximum temperatures from December 17. |
 This is a 4th grade student, Uju Kim, and Mom, Susie from Highlands school. They came out to collect the data for the week.
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 This is view "A" looking Southeast on December 1, 2014 |
 This is view "B" looking South on December 1, 2014 |
 This is view "C" looking Southwest on December 1, 2014 |
 This is view "D" looking West Northwest on December 1, 2014 |
 This is view "E" looking Northwest on December 1, 2014 |
 This is view "F" looking Northeast on December 1, 2014 |
 The only part of Lake Marmo that was not frozen was the inlet that had water flowing in from a branch of the DuPage River. |
 One of the trees that I have photographing since 2007 was cut down this past summer. See my 3 Trees page. |
| 2014 gave us one of the coldest Novembers in history that was
followed by one of the warmest Decembers causing the lake to thaw.
This is view "A" looking Southeast on December 28, 2014 |
The lake was 100% frozen by December 1st. (See above) The
temperature only got below freezing once from December 20-28.
This is view "B" looking South on December 28, 2014 |
 This is view "C" looking Southwest on December 28, 2014 |
 This is view "D" looking West Northwest on December 28, 2014 |
 This is view "E" looking Northwest on December 28, 2014 |
 This is view "F" looking Northeast on December 28, 2014 |
 Lake Marmo froze up after a cold spell in early January. |
 The cold was followed by 3 inches of snow January 5th, 2015. |
 This is the inlet to the lake and it is frozen too. |
 Temperatures were so cold that schools were closed on January 7th. |
 This is view "A" looking Southeast on March 14, 2015 |
 This is view "B" looking South on March 14, 2015 |
 This is view "C" looking Southwest on March 14, 2015 |
 March 14, the inlet was starting to flow with water. 85% ice |
 This is view "D" looking West Northwest on March 14, 2015 |
 This is view "E" looking Northwest on March 14, 2015 |
 This is view "F" looking Northeast on March 14, 2015 |
 I returned on March 19, 2015 and found 60% covered with ice. |
 This is view "A" looking Southeast on March 19, 2015 |
 This is view "B" looking South on March 19, 2015 |
 This is view "C" looking Southwest on March 19, 2015 |
 This is view "D" looking West Northwest on March 19, 2015 |
 This is view "E" looking Northwest on March 19, 2015 |
 This is view "F" looking Northeast on March 19, 2015 |
 2015 Illinois had the warmest December on record. Lake Marmo was in 100% liquid state most of the month. If you know anyone who is still denying that the planet is not warming, they are getting paid to say that or they are believing people who are getting paid. |
 January 2, 2016 finally got cold enough for some ice to form on Lake Marmo. It had a 60% cover of ice. The lake did not get covered 100% until mid January. I started observing freeze up in 2007 when the lake was 100% frozen on December 1. In 2008, the lake was 100% frozen late in November. |
 This is view "A" looking Southeast on January 24, 2016 |
 This is view "B" looking South on January 24, 2016 |
 This is view "C" looking Southwest on January 24, 2016 |
 This is view "D" looking West Northwest on January 24, 2016 |
 This is view "E" looking Northwest on January 24, 2016 |
 This is view "F" looking Northeast on January 24, 2016 |
 This is view "A" looking Southeast on December 15, 2016 |
 This is view "B" looking South on December 15, 2016 |
 This is view "C" looking Southwest on December 15, 2016 We had warm start to December, but it finally got down to 0 C on the 13th, 14th and 15th. Lake Marmo froze over and we had 10 inches of snow on the 12th. |
 This View is from my 3 trees site looking Northeast. (One of the trees was cut down in 2014.) There was no ice on the lake on December 2nd when I took my monthly picture here.
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 This is view "A" looking Southeast on January 1, 2017 |
 This is view "B" looking South on January 1, 2017 |
 This is view "C" looking Southwest on January 1, 2017 |
 This is view "D" looking West Northwest on January 1, 2017 |
 This is view "E" looking Northwest on January 1, 2017 |
 This is view "F" looking Northeast on January 1, 2017 |
 The Lake was 80% covered with ice. Water was flowing freely here at the inlet. |
 Water was flowing freely here at the outlet waterfall. There were a few fallen trees that couldn't make it down river |
 Lake Marmo finally was 100% covered with ice by the start of February, but Illinois had one of the warmest Februarys and the lake started to melt. |
 The river that gets water from the lake was completely liquid by mid February. Lake Marmo was back to 80% ice coverage. (Pictured below) |
 This is view "A" looking Southeast on February 13, 2017 |
 This is view "B" looking South on February 13, 2017 |
 This is view "C" looking Southwest on February 13, 2017 |
 This is view "D" looking West Northwest on February 13, 2017 |
 This is view "E" looking Northwest on February 13, 2017 |
 This is view "F" looking Northeast on February 13, 2017 |
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All ice was gone in February! In 2008, we had ice until March 28. |
That has not happened since I started observing in 2007! |
 This is view "A" looking Southeast on February 27, 2017 |
 This is view "B" looking South on February 27, 2017 |
 This is view "C" looking Southwest on February 27, 2017 |
 This is view "D" looking West Northwest on February 27, 2017 |
 This is view "E" looking Northwest on February 27, 2017 |
 This is view "F" looking Northeast on February 27, 2017 |
| We got our first measurable snow fall on March 13-14. I measured 5 inches in my back yard. | I went out to shovel the sidewalk at noon and the snow was gone! I was hoping to burn the gas in my snow blower, but no snow to blow! |
 This is view "A" looking Southeast on January 1, 2018 |
 This is view "B" looking South on January 1, 2018 |
 This is view "C" looking Southwest on January 1, 2018 |
 This is view "D" looking West Northwest on January 1, 2018 |
 This is view "E" looking Northwest on January 1, 2018 |
 This is view "F" looking Northeast on January 1, 2018 |
 This is view "A" looking Southeast on February 28, 2018 |
 This is view "B" looking South on February 28, 2018 |
 This is view "C" looking Southwest on February 28, 2018 |
 This is view "D" looking West Northwest on February 28, 2018 |
 This is view "E" looking Northwest on February 28, 2018 |
 This is view "F" looking Northeast on February 28, 2018 |
 This is view "C" looking Southwest on January 3, 2019. Lake Marmo had 50% ice cover, up from 30% a month ago. |
This is view "C" looking Southwest on February 2, 2019. The Lake finally froze up in mid January when we had a Polar Vortex plunge Temperatures far below zero for a week. |
 February 2nd was the warmest day in quite a while. It was 43 F when I took these pictures. We had the Polar Vortex hit us with temperatures down to -23 F on January 29th and 30th. We have had 30 CM of snow since January 20. We had 15 CM in one snow storm in November and no snow fell in December as we had a record warm December. |
 The East branch of the DuPage River was not frozen this winter. |
 We had a Halloween snowstorm and Lake Marmo had no ice on November 1, 2019 |
 We had no snow in a mild December there was no ice on December 4, 2019. Grass is still green. |
 January 1, 2020 we finally had some snow and some ice on that covered 20% of the lake. |
 We finally had some freezing temperatures in the last week of January that finally gave Lake Marmol 100% ice coverage. We had 5 CM of snow on January 31 and February 1, but we had the temperature go up to 51 Degrees on February 2, when I took this picture. All of the snow was gone on the sunny side of the Lake. |
Lake Marmo Freeze up 2007-2008
Lake Marmo Freeze up 2008-2009
Lake Marmo Freeze up 2009-2010
Lake Marmo Freeze up 2011-2012
Lake Marmo Freeze up 2012-2013
Lake Marmo Freeze up 2013-2016
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Information about the GLOBE program GLOBE is an
acronym for Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment. GLOBE is a
global environmental program that uses the internet to share student’s
observations and measurements with GLOBE scientist and students. My Randolph School students recorded over 8000 environmental
measurements during my 6 years in the program. I was trained for GLOBE at University of
Illinois Urbana March 1995 I served as a GLOBE Teacher Trainer at the following places: University of
Illinois Urbana August 1995 Drexel University
in Philadelphia August, 1996 New York University October 1996 Ohio Aerospace
Institute November, 1996 University of
Illinois Urbana March, 1997 New
Hampshire April, 1997 University of
Iowa October, 1997 University of Colorado January, 1998 Ohio Aerospace
Institute November, 1998 Charleston West Chester PA October, 2000 Fairbanks Alaska September 2007 In September of 2003, the Naperville School District 203 formed a partnership with the GLOBE Program. We have performed Teacher workshops in the following places: Highland Park, Illinois July, 2005 Workshop Park Ridge, Illinois September, 2005 Morton Arboretum, Lisle Illinois February 2010 GLOBE Stars GLOBE Surface Temperature at the Arboretum GLOBE Surface Temperature at Highlands School GLOBE Hydrology Study websites: Steeple Run Fall 2008 Hydrology at Rotts Creek Steeple Run Fall 2009 Hydrology at Rotts Creek Steeple Run Fall 2010 Hydrology at Rotts Creek Steeple Run Fall 2011 Hydrology at Rotts Creek Steeple Run students at the Morton Arboretum 2005 Steeple Run Transit of Mercury 11/08/06 Steeple Run and Highlands Bass release 11/4/06 Steeple Run and Highlands 5/6/08 Field Trip to the Adler Planetarium Highlands School 10/14/05 Hydrology at Highlands School Highlands School 10/11/07 Hydrology at Highlands School Highlands School macro invertebrates study. Highlands School Bass Release May 18, 2006 Highlands School Site Definition Highlands School Phenology 2008 Randolph School Hydrology at Marquette Park Phenology at the Arboretum Spring Fall Phenology 2007 Highlands School Frost Tube Lake Marmo Freeze up 2007-2008 Lake Marmo Freeze up 2008-2009 Lake Marmo Freeze up 2009-2010 Lake Marmo Freeze up 2011-2012 Lake Marmo Freeze up 2012-2013 Lake Marmo Freeze up 2013-present Rocket Day at Steeple Run School Rocket Launch at Highlands School Rocket launch at Irene King School Solar Noon Shadow Measurements Flat Stanley learns about GLOBE GLOBE Program: http://www.globe.gov |
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