re: Temperature to freeze the Mississippi River

Lots of dumb arse answers in here saying 32 degrees. It would take weeks off temperatures in the tend to freeze all the way over. Flow is way down now.

Barges gonna keep it busted up no matter anyways

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This is not the Nile River that flows north. The OP was to make a sheet of ice of a body of water that is several feet deep and several hundred feet wide.

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The Volga River has almost twice the discharge of the Mississippi and can look like this

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Does water freeze at a different temp down there?

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I suspect the salinity of the river is higher at New Orleans than at STL or Memphis. So, yes, water would freeze at different temperatures.

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Does water freeze at a different temp down there?

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Bruh

Have they talked about opening the Morganza Spillway yet ?

Every time I remember it freezing they waited too late to open it.

Montana’s bigger rivers don’t ice over until it’s been winter for a month or more and then around and below zero for a week or so at a time, and the Yellowstone and even the Missouri here are creeks compared to the Mississippi in BR or Nola.

It would have to do something totally impossible for the Mississippi to ice over, as wide as it is. Like, -30 for 2 weeks impossible.

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Does water freeze at a different temp down there?

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Small mind.

If the River froze over every snowflake on this site would either be dead or eating bobcat carcass raw

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It was -59 to freeze the river in Minnesota.

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The Mississippi freezes well before it gets to -59 even up nort here.


*Yes, where there is current it takes longer than the backwaters. The river generally closes to barge traffic in late November/early December up here.

I worked on the Mississippi over 30 years, '83 was the only times I saw sheets of ice floating downriver.