From Minnesota to Maine, lakes are usually still frozen over. This year, the ice is already gone in many places, and earlier than ever.
From Minnesota to Maine, water surfaces are still frozen over. This year, the ice is already gone in many places, earlier than ever.Lakes from Minnesota to Maine are usually still frozen over at this time of year, as signs of spring slowly emerge across the country’s northern tier.
“It’s a little bit unsettling,” said Chris O’Brien, a Wisconsin native who now serves as a marketing coordinator for Fresh Water, an environmental nonprofit in the Twin Cities. On Clear Lake, about 45 miles northwest of Minneapolis, ice-out came March 1, about a month earlier than average and the earliest in records that go back to 1874. In the Twin Cities region, the ice-out on Lake Minnetonka came about as early: Instead of a typical April 13 ice-out, it came March 13.Ice-out arrived March 8, five weeks earlier than usual, on White Bear Lake, just north of St. Paul, the earliest since record-keeping there began in 1928.
Lake Winnipesaukee has historically seen ice-outs toward the middle or end of April, but this year, aerial observations revealed its arrival Sunday. It was a day earlier than the previous record-setting ice-out, in 2016. In each of the past four years, ice-out has arrived no later than April 8.“Ice-out was almost an anticlimax this year because there was barely any ice-in,” said Al Posnack, a volunteer with the Lake Winnipesaukee Sailing Association.
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