Today's snow and sleet storm is chilling the water surface rapidly. The snow that fell earlier this morning did not melt in the water but formed bergs instead. Since 11 am, sleet (ice pellets) has taken over the job of chilling off the water surface.
At the
Black Cat WeatherCam the water temperature this morning was 35 degrees at 2 feet down, and 36 at 10 feet down. In the last 4 hours the 2-foot probe has reached 33 degrees, with some fluctuation while the 10-foot probe has remained steady at 36.
However, the wind won't let the ice sit still. The storm has produced a peak gust of 44 mph so far.