Ice on the open lake SE of Black Cat
This morning's dawn revealed several small ice sheets drifting in the open lake southeast of Black Cat. This was most likely a result of the snow yesterday, as the ice sheets looked like snow-ice rather than black ice.
In the last couple days the water temp at Black Cat WeatherCam has dropped to 35.
This morning's ice will probably be short-lived as winds pick up later this afternoon and into tomorrow morning. Sunday's forecast storm is likely to have a lot of wind with it, so that should keep the lake open until it sits still again, but the snow and/or sleet should help to cool the surface water even more.
As usual, we'll need about 24 hours of clear, calm, and cold weather to bring ice-in. So far this year's ice-in looks to be 'right on time' -- between Christmas and New Years -- which will seem early after the extremely late ice cover we've seen in the last few years.
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