On Sea Ice

Both Locally and Beyond

[Readers, here is a piece for paid subscribers on sea ice, locally and beyond. I did also want to note that there will be a meeting of the Massachusetts Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel (NDCAP) tomorrow night, Monday, Jan. 27th, at 6:30 p.m. in Plymouth Town Hall. Thanks as always for reading and subscribing.]

(DUXBURY) — Despite a comparatively mild week forecast ahead, it has been a relatively cold winter thus far in our corner of New England, and we have witnessed the return to some our more sheltered and enclosed bays of a physical phenomenon that has long held the attention of both academic and practical observers: namely, sea ice.

(The frozen waters of The Nook, the uppermost arm of Kingston Bay, in Duxbury; looking north, towards Hall’s Corner. Credit — Ben Cronin.)