Long Island Sound Freezing Up! Connecticut Frozen Shore!

I'm in complete geek out mode this morning as temperatures once again drop down to zero degrees. February has the potential to be the coldest February on record for many in the Northeast and it certainly is showing! The official temperature of Long Island Sound is 32 degrees and harbors are even colder. In fact it is so cold, ice has begun to form in the salty waters of Long Island Sound! 

I braved the extreme cold this morning to take some photographs of the frozen shoreline. Below are the photos I took with my phone, I have even more on my DSLR camera. 

The first photo is of Anchor Beach in Milford, CT. Notice the accumulated ice on all the rocks and all the ice in the water! Some ice even looked like pancake ice! 

Here's one of those rocks covered in thick ice. Remember this is frozen salt water!! 

Milford Harbor is completely frozen over! But it sure looks pretty! 

Another view of the frozen harbor, the ice to the left is buckled due to flowing water from a small river that feeds into the harbor. 

The river that flows through downtown Milford and into the Harbor. 

Milford's famous Charles Island looks pretty cold from the shore of Gulf Beach! Look at all that ice around the shore! 

A beach day at Gulf Beach? Maybe not, those are large chunks of ice floating in slushy salt water along the beach! 

Finally, a satellite view of Long Island Sound this morning, February 20, 2015. If you look closely at the northern edge of Long Island Sound, you will see a thin line of white, that's all the ice on Long Island sound and some of it was captured on my camera this morning! 

Blizzard 2013!! Nemo hit hard in Milford, CT

Even though Boston was suppose to be hit the hardest in last week's blizzard, south central CT was surprised to become the bullseye of the storm!  An official report of 38 inches of snow in my hometown of Milford, CT! and even more just north of us in Hamden, CT of 40 inches (We even made ABC News and we're at the top of the list!)!  Although the snow on the ground matches that of the snowy January of 2011, it didn't come in one night like this blizzard! Like storms of the past I got my camera out and took some amazing photos of the show! Check them out at WxEdge:

Snowed In and Loving it: Blizzard of 2013 

It's day 3 and we have yet to see a plow come up our street!!  So yesterday (Sunday) afternoon the neighbors banned together to make a path in the street.  They used snow blowers and shovels to make their way to the main road off the development!  I took some photos of this in between helping and also wrote an article on WxEdge!  

Who Needs a Plow When You Got Neighbors!

I still can't believe the amount of snow we got!  It's being compared to the great Blizzards of 1978 and 1888!!  Storms that I read about throughout my childhood, never really expecting to experience it!  PS there's a possible snow storm for Wednesday night and Saturday night!  This would be insane because roads won't even be plowed till Wednesday and then covered again that night!  Plus kids have been out of school since last Friday and may not go back till this Friday!! Goodbye winter and spring break!