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No ice this year? The winter of 2004-05 has been warmer than usual, and because of that we’ve received enough rain to produce two feet of snow, had the weather been colder. Rainwater has raised river temperatures, too, and kept them as much as five degrees above the freezing point.
On January 18, 2004, eight inches of ice covered Narrowsburg’s Big Eddy. On the same date in 2003, the ice was nine inches thick, and would reach 27 inches before it broke up in mid-March.
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| TRR photo by Barbara Yeaman | |
| When this picture was taken on January 18, 2004, an eight-inch thick ice sheet covered the Delaware River below the Big Eddy in Narrowsburg, NY. Route 652 is between the houses and the river.
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| TRR photo by Ed Wesely | |
| The Delaware River flowed freely at the same locale on January 17, 2005. Except for a few days in late December, the river has been ice-free this winter.
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