Morning fellow (soon to be) pond paddlers. 
Looks like, if we get the expected warm up with the predicted strong winds and some rain on Thursday, we could possibly have ice out on some of the lakes this week! I can't remember EVER having ice out in March!!! Not on any of the larger water of course, but it is a real possibility on the "puddles" as they're referred to here. It is almost impossible to find a straight stretch of road up here unless it's one of those four lane + things because we are so riddled with "pothole" lakes everywhere with a larger one thrown in occasionally and of course rivers and creeks in between. Even the BIG water (aka Lake Superior which rarely freezes all the way because of it's size) had far less ice cover than normal this year because of the spastic weather (as Phil can attest to). We only have about a foot or so of snow left on the ground but a few feet of frozen ground so if we get too much rain this week some areas are going to become very "splashy". Thankfully we only have one area on the high ground where the house and buildings sit that tends to turn into a lake til the ground thaws.
Looks like, if we get the expected warm up with the predicted strong winds and some rain on Thursday, we could possibly have ice out on some of the lakes this week! I can't remember EVER having ice out in March!!! Not on any of the larger water of course, but it is a real possibility on the "puddles" as they're referred to here. It is almost impossible to find a straight stretch of road up here unless it's one of those four lane + things because we are so riddled with "pothole" lakes everywhere with a larger one thrown in occasionally and of course rivers and creeks in between. Even the BIG water (aka Lake Superior which rarely freezes all the way because of it's size) had far less ice cover than normal this year because of the spastic weather (as Phil can attest to). We only have about a foot or so of snow left on the ground but a few feet of frozen ground so if we get too much rain this week some areas are going to become very "splashy". Thankfully we only have one area on the high ground where the house and buildings sit that tends to turn into a lake til the ground thaws.
