Dave, I'll keep you updated. Hopefully the ice just dissapears. It appears to be rotting into candle ice... Crossing my fingers for both of us.

IG. Lily Pond is BLACK. Much darker than yesterday with open water around the shore line and steel light towers. I wouldn't be surprised if Lily's ice is gone tomorrow. This picture was taken driving down the bypass, not a great shot but you get the picture!

More Pics
 

Here's a couple pics from my deck overlooking the broads. That's Welch island in the first pic, the second is looking just east of Welch directly at the broads. No open water, just looks like it but it is very dark in places!!

Pic 2
 

Come on ice out!!!!!

15mph winds tomorrow afternoon and night. This could definitely do some damage to the ice, hopefully not the docks. :eek::eek:

Fingers Crossed
 

FYI, from today's Union Leader .....

Alton Bay Ice
 

Is out to the bandstand :banana::banana::banana:

Ice Breaker
 

We've got an Ice breaker at Black Cat ! :)

Photo of people in a rowboat...
 

Wow, I guess someone just can't wait till ice-out... hahahaha

yeah baby!!! melt melt melt...
 

much more exciting than watching grass grow or paint dry :)

Melt!
Over looking Akwa Marina Yacht Club towards Meredith

Not much melting on the Broads side of Big Barndoor Island...

This is Lily Pond about 1/2 an hour ago. Gusty wind out of the NE is ripping it apart. This morning it was all ice, now two thirds of Lily is water!

Winni_Bay. The ice along Weirs Blvd. is starting to break up. The winds are in your favor today although the ice is very close to your posts. The slab that's close is not huge and probably thin, the wind is helping. I'll take another look later.

Looks like the ice sheet is getting mushy ..... changing from white to grey to black.....watched an eagle land on the ice sheet earlier this morning, about 10' from open shoreline water .... only to see it break through the slushy ice and fall into the water.....weighing maybe five pounds .....did not seem to bother the eagle one little bit....it took it all in stride....it happened again in another nearby spot and this eagle was totally nonchalant about it ..... the eagle was stepping along......slowly walking across the ice and seemed to be scanning the water depths......when all of a sudden it broke through the slushy ice......must have been stalking a fish or something to eat....at the time?


And no, it was not wearing a pfd!

My wife was kind enough to stop by Lincoln Park today and snap some photos (while I am stuck at home with a cold). Not too long before the 1st trip out to Welch.

Paugus bay ice
 

thanks for the update Paugusbayfirefighter
hope to get through this week without damage

on another note where is Lincoln Park how do you get there looks like great view from that park thanks for any info

It's in Gilford, Belknap Point Road.

Lily
 

Lily pond was 90% open when I went by just a little while ago. Should be clear by morning.

So is Lily pond a one or two week indicator of ice out?? Hopefully one! :D

Dan

About a week...
 

Week to 10 days.

Tick Tock!
 

View from Mink looking north this A.M.

Almost open in front of Trexler's by the Long Island Bridge.

Lots of melt even over night

39 Degrees!
 

According to the lakeport line the lake has reached 39 Degrees---Won't be long now! :)

This is not looking good.
 

Not looking good at all. Come on ice hang in there!! I know you can make it!! Just a week and two days to go and I could win the contest. So hang in there for just a little longer.











ToW ducks and slinks out of the room hoping no one will notice.

Can someone tell me or post a link to the ice-out contest. I can't find it anywhere.:)

Ask and you shall Recieve
 

Here you go Pins


http://www.winnipesaukee.com/contests/2015/


ToW

On the homepage of the site there is a link to the Ice-Out page on the left side under "Articles - Information".

well I'm out
my guess was April 15th 9:52am

Lily Pond is ice free. Start the one week clock

Winnisquam
 

As noted there has been a big change since Sunday. I had to come up today as the Roofers were here (that's another post). We are on the west side, south of Pot island; the shoreline is almost free and the middle of the lake is very dark.

Inside the cabin was mid 40's, up 10 degrees from Sunday, can almost turn the water on. Most of the snow is gone. Guess I better go to Killington this weekend :cool:

Video of Winnipesaukee ice from April 12th
 

This video was recorded April 12th. Lots of changes since then but a great video showing our frozen lake!

Credit Bill Hemmel for the great shots.

https://vimeo.com/125089988

video
 

thanks paugusbay firefighter nice video

how's progress on Paugus bay think it will be ice free for Saturday

Thanks

Paugus is black. The coves are clear. There are open water cracks across the ice. It's now a few very large slabs that have not drifted too much. Some wind out of the SW tomorrow will have my attention. Not sure about ice free. 24 hours will tell a lot. I have 40 degree water temp @1.5'.

I sent you a PM with some info on your docks.

ice
 

yeah southwest wind could do damage to
I sent you a PM reply
thanks for your help highly appreciated

Water Temperature
 

My recollection from many years of watching the water temperature is this: It seemed like every year that I put my boat in within a few days of ice out the first temperature reading on the depth finder was 42 degrees and that was very consistent, year after year.

If you have 40 degrees now then it is very close! Bring on summer!

My web cam showed significant change today in the channel between moultonborough bay and Ambrose. The ice much darker just since yesterday. I'llcheck again in the morning and post a picture.


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going... going... going... gone???
 

it won't be long now, if we get a good breeze, it should disappear in a heartbeat!!

Out to the island!! -PIG

Looking at the Wolfeboro Corinthian Yacht Club cam, it appears that the whole ice pack has shifted toward the docks (not a good thing for any structures if the pack is moving fast and still has all that mass). So things are shifting.

Interestingly, other views are very different. Snake Eyes view still looks very locked in. The view there is similar to what I see out my windows on Merrymeeting. Still fairly solid looking and not quite dark enough yet.

I hope all of this softens and breaks up more before the predicted winds over the weekend or else there could be a lot of damage.

This was taken 1 year ago today
 

From Brookwoods
 

A view of Rattlesnake Island this morning, April 17, 2015. You are seeing all ice.

http://69.21.83.38:1031/axis-cgi/jpg...lution=640x480