Snow on open water?

[Belmont Resident]

Originally Posted by NYCtoLSP

I keep hearing that you need to be careful on the lake because in some parts there is snow sitting on top of open water. That does not make any sense to me. Can anyone tell me if that occurs and how? Or is it impossible?

Snow cannot sit on water, however there are a lot of areas with very thin ice as mentioned in earlier posts.
Someone did a video of what they found heading out to Rattlesnake, ice went from 6 or 8" to 2 inches. They turned back.
Remember not very long ago there was still open water in many places.
Read through the posts about ice in.
LSP= Lake shore park? One of the open areas was off of Lake Shore park if I remember correctly.