It’s official! Just as we were waking up from ringing in the New Year, the Wisconsin State Climatology Office declared January 1, 2026 as the date that Lake Mendota officially froze for the 2025/26 winter season. Here at the CFL it’s hard to feel like winter has truly begun until the last of Madison’s lakes …
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 …
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 …