Icebergs in Baton Rouge harbour

No, but I remember mudbergs at Thunderbird beach.

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Does any one remember this. Happend in late 83 or early 84?

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I remember seeing small icebergs floating down the river during the winter in the '90s as I passed over the Huey P. I think it's pretty common during the winter.

Sorry to tell you they came from the Ohio, the Missouri and Illinois rivers when they froze and broke lose, I am not suggesting they formed in the harbor

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Mississippi river at BR

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It's 42 right now.

Normally gets to 40-ish at the end of January to the beginning of February in BR.

That is funny.

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Given the temperature of the Mississippi river at BR, I doubt this is possible.

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I believe it was in 89. A large portion of the river freezes up north. Ice doesn’t make it down this ways because of the dams north of St Louis. They catch most of the ice to keep shipping lanes open.

It’s frozen over before at St Louis. You can go see YT videos on it.

It does happen but rare. The ones I saw were of good size. Very cold up North then and when they broke they hit the mighty Ms river and they move quick

When my grandmother passed away, we were going through some of her old photos and I remember seeing pictures of the icebergs. She even had a note about it written on the back

I remember that.

There was an extremely long and hard freeze that froze the Mississippi River further south than usual and created a large ice floe jam south of St. Louis, Mo.

When the floe broke loose, chunks of ice as big as double-wide trailers made it floating down the river through Baton Rouge.

I remember seeing them float by looking out of my downtown Baton Rouge office window.

Big tows coming down the river from up north carry ice on them and in large quantities. When they get down here and they split up the tows, those chunks float down. Now I'm not sure how big these chunks you're speaking of are, but these can be pretty big.