Nearly five years of living on the lake's edge, it's hard to not to hear it and to love it. As the lake freezes, it makes crazy, ray-gun-type noises. Alien. I think it's due to the cracking of the ice. It's a wildly fluid membrane structure, ultimately, no?
We should all give a big-up to mother nature for her natural Zamboni effect.
At any rate, I stomped through the ice at the edge and we have 2-3 inches. This amazing cold we're getting should assure us at least a safe 4" of clean, clear ice by Saturday. To skate on! Will pull out the auger on Saturday morning.
Ice growth chart courtesy of this fine website.
Hourly weather graph provided by the National Weather Service.
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You think ice skating on the lake tonight would be too early? It's 19° today and it's supposed to be 29° tomorrow. Not sure if the ice will be much thicker by tomorrow. I will try ice skating tonight.
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