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ice trends

Updated: When Will Our Lakes Freeze? Time for Annual CFL “Ice On” Pool

Posted on November 26, 2018

Note, post was originally published 11/28/16 and has been updated to include current conditions.  After a rather balmy Thanksgiving, where nighttime lows still hovered above freezing, our forecast calls for highs in the 30s (Fahrenheit) and …

Posted in Global Change & Long-Term EcologyTagged ice trends, John Magnuson, Lake Mendota freeze, polar vortex, Wisconsin State Climatology Office

Lake Mendota’s Freeze Earliest in… well…Three Years

Posted on December 18, 2013

As you now probably know, the Wisconsin State Climatologist’s office has officially called it – Lake Mendota achieved “ice on” this Monday, December 16th. And that means our iconic lake has frozen twice in the …

Posted in Global Change & Long-Term Ecology, Hasler LabTagged climate change, ice trends, Lake Mendota, limnology, wisconsin climatology

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