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Tag: ice trends

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

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 lows in the 20s this week, which means it’s the time of year when we try to do the impossible …

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

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 same calendar year! (Not all that unusual, but still cool.) While the freeze comes nearly a month earlier than the …