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The large portions of Merrymeeting that I can see mostly skimmed over last night, though there are still open areas. If the wind picks up today, I expect it will break up. But today and tomorrow are forecast to be very calm.
It will be interesting to see how much of the predicted warm-up we get later in the week, and whether it has an impact on the developing ice. While the forecast has days above freezing, the nights (and majority of each 24 hour period) will be below freezing. Despite what many seem to perceive, things are really not much off the normal "ice-in" schedule. It is rare for Merrymeeting to show much ice before the New Year. But is is usually solidly frozen by mid-January. The key is for the surface to skim over completely so the wind doesn't break it up. Once formed, if the temps are below freezing, the ice thickens quickly. All that said, please be careful! The next few weeks are, unfortunately, guaranteed to include stories of bright bulbs who venture out on the ice too soon and end up in the drink. Stay safe everyone! |
..... the ice com-eth & go-eth?
Driving back and forth on Route 25-Meredith this morning, enroute to and from the Gilford-Lowe's; at about 8-am, the lake ice on Meredith Bay extended from Lago's out maybe 1000-yds to the triple-h $12.5-mil log cabin.
At about 10-am, returning to Meredith, the lake ice had most all disappeared and become water, except for very close up to the Lago's ristorante. Also, as seen from Route 25-Holderness at about 7:45-am, Little Squam was almost totally frozen over, and Big Squam had maybe 25% ice sheets. Two days ago, there was no ice at all on either Big or Little Squam Lake. |
Boat Ride
I actually took a boat ride out to Welch Island this morning from the Glendale docks. The Docks at Glendale were just starting to skim over at best. The ISS boats that were left there overnight were slightly frozen in and easily broke free. It was a cold ride out to Welch but we encountered no ice on the way or any whatsoever around Welch island. With temps in the mid 30's and low 40's this weekend, I don't think much will be happening ice wise for a bit yet...
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29 days until the New England Pond Hockey Classic. The weather forecast for the next 15 days does not have temps that will create any type of thick, safe ice. Here's to hoping for cold whether after this stretch so the Classic doesn't have to move to Waukewan or worse, be cancelled.
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Monday puts us 69 days away from spring! |
Lakeport Dam is reporting todays water temp at 37 degrees which is obviously a huge reflection on last nights heavy rains. The reported temp a few days ago was 34 degrees which was a temp not hit last year until the first week of April. Thinking were going to see a March iceout, bring on Boating season. :):):)
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Lakeport is reporting 37 degrees again today (02/26/2016).
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The raw, cool, weather pattern caused the water temp reading on my sensor to stall at 47-48 degrees for the the past few weeks. In the past 24 hours it's gone from 48 to 53! Not really a surprise as the 48 reading was uniform throughout several depths so all that was needed was air temp above the water temps, and some solar gain to get it to pop.
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Water Temperature
The water temperature at our dock on East Bear Island on Mother's Day was 51 degrees. 🐻
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51.5 today Ambrose Cove at 0945
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55 on Winnisquam yesterday.
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46 - 48 degs between Sleepers and Diamond Islands this morning.
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Surface temp has gone up almost 5 degrees in the past 3 days. It's 55 at Trexler's Marina. I only started collecting data to graph a couple days ago, but Tuesday afternoon it was almost 51 degrees at 1 Ft and 49 degrees at 3 Ft.
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52° over open deep water this morning...
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My sensor is mounted under my dock, about 1' over the water. The attached probe is below, about 3' deep, in an area that is about 5' deep overall.
The green line is the water temp, red is air temp (again, just above the water in the shade) Here's my data for the past week. Water temp has risen substantially over the past few days and now showing the normal upward trend for this time of year. |
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Lake Water Temperature
60 yesterday off my dock on Six Mile
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Water Temp.
Put the dock in Yesterday and the temp.was 54 in Orchard Cove . Too cold for a swim my youngest said . kerk
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Trexler's marina just added air and water temperature graphs: http://www.trexlers.com/lake-winnipe...live-feed.html
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Should stay consistently over 60 after today, and I'm guessing at least 65 by the weekend. Time to get out the bathing suits! (again, green line is water temp. Strong variations early in the week were due to high winds churning the water)
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Although not accurate, and only measures the Temp just below the hull .... the Trexler Temp's seem to align with what we were reading off our boat gauge this past weekend. We were picking off between 57 - 59 depending where we were on the lake as the water Temp.
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H2O Temperature
57 degrees three feet down at our dock on East Bear Island last Saturday. 🐻
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60 degrees today over deep open water....
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Any updates? Thanks!
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May 27, 2016
Surface temp in Jockey Cove was 61. Temp at 20 feet was 57.
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H2O Temperature
Sixty-four degrees at our dock on East Bear Island this morning. 🐻
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Quite a roller-coaster ride for the temps this week. On Saturday, we had a neighborhood in-water, float party. Last night you would see your breath while outside.
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Water temperature is heading in the wrong direction. Quite a drop in the past week, though no surprise given cold temps and winds.
Winds were unreal yesterday, and more of the same predicted for Sunday-Tuesday. We still have another 4-5 days of below average temps before things improve. |
Brrrrr,,,
Water temperature at East Bear Island at noon today is 58 degrees, down 9 degrees from last weekend. Have to use my wool swim suit. 🐻
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I DO NOT want to turn this thread political but I have a theory that global warming will become completely real when (and if) oceanfront properties in warm places like FL start decreasing in value as people will be so concerned as to seek cooler climates. That is NOT happening but if it does? I am in GREAT shape here at South Point on Long Island. Freakin cold!
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Wolfeboro Bay Area
Surface temp at 5:30 PM on 06/10/16 was 61 degrees F.
Temperature at 60 feet deep was 50 degrees F. The 8 divers that went there said it was fun! |
Steam coming off the lake this morning, so you know what that means! It's cooling down even more. We are supposed to get this in the fall not the spring! C'mon summer!!!!
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Any updates on water temps? We'll be up Saturday......hoping the water temps have gone up a little.
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74 at Trexlers. This heat is doing wonders.
http://www.trexlers.com/lake-winnipe...live-feed.html Click on the graph for more views. |
Water Temperature Update
At East Bear Island, our guests from Ohio took a chilly swim in 67 degree water last night as the nearly full moon was rising. 🐻
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Saw the same steep rise on Monday here too. It's headed back in the right direction. (Red= air temp, blue-humidity, green=water. Under dock, 3' down)
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Sunday swim.
Sunday, we took a dip in the lake down in Robert's Cove.
Not having an AED on board, I decided not to shock this 70 year old body by stepping off the swim step into the water, I went down the ladder a step at a time, then knelt on the bottom step. Splashed some water on my chest, then grabbed a "noodle" and flopped into the water. :eek: It was somewhere between shocking and invigorating (difference could be related to the above referenced age thing). My wife asked "How's the water?" Lying through what teeth I have left (age thing again), I said "Great once you get in." :D:cool: Actually, can't remember swimming off the boat on Father's Day in the past. And it actually was pretty good after a few minutes floating on the noodle, and not because we were totally numb. |
The water is enjoyable at this point in the year, but then again i've been swimming in it since May. My thermometer has been bouncing between 68-72 the last week.
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Swim and Dine Time...
The water temperature can't be too bad. Ms Deer went out 250' and casually checked out who has planted those tasty hostas this year. ;)
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i1...psynqszooq.jpg . |
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