Year: 2021

Why Do We Say Lake Mendota is Frozen Before it’s Fully Frozen?

This weekend, the Center for Limnology Twitter account was tagged in a post from the UW Department of Emergency Medicine’s chief flight physician and pilot, Mike Abernethy, who had been flying a helicopter over Lake Mendota on Saturday, January 9th. It’s a really cool view of the lake and you should watch it here. While …

Where Does Lake Mendota’s Freeze Date Fall in Historic Average?

In case you missed the news, Lake Mendota was officially deemed “frozen” by the Wisconsin State Climatology Office on Sunday. That January 3rd “ice on” date is about two weeks later than the median freeze date of December 20th, although it’s a far cry from the record late-freeze date of January 30th in 1932. This …