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Lake Mendota freeze

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

Posted on January 11, 2021

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 …

Posted in Learn Your Lakes, Limnology 101Tagged lake ice, Lake Mendota freeze, long-term datasets, Madison lakes, Madison Wisconsin, Winter Limnology, Wisconsin winter

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

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