Cold front has passed the lake in the last couple hours. We're down to 24 and dropping fast. Winds now gusting to 39 mph out of the NW. Water temp just went to 39 at 2 feet and 40 at 10 feet. When the 2-foot depth gets to about 35 the surface usually has ice. We may reach that point next weekend. Tonight and the first part of tomorrow will chill the water off for sure.
Since this is a snow thread, here's today's snow report from the lake. Black Cat got 0.1" snow this morning and another 0.1" this evening. We're getting snow showers off and on right now, due to the topography. The wind is hitting the NW-facing slopes of various mountains and rising into much colder air aloft, and the moisture condenses out as snow when that happens. The atmosphere is very quickly drying out as this Canadian cold blast moves in, so that should end the snow shower activity by morning except over the higher summits of the Whites.
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