Ice In

[fatlazyless]

Wednesday, Feb 14, 7-am; looking at the Snake Eyes Cam and all the ice is totally open water with waves and white caps. Miles of ice done got beat up by the wind and warm temps overnight or something from Rattlesnake to Tuftonboro/Wolfeboro.

[Skippermark]

Originally Posted by fatlazyless

Wednesday, Feb 14, 7-am; looking at the Snake Eyes Cam and all the ice is totally open water with waves and white caps.

Pretty windy out there today. The Windfinder site is showing winds around 20 with a gust over 43 at 9:55 AM.

https://www.windfinder.com/report/gilford_winnipesaukee

[ishoot308]

Wind was brutal last night! Gusts to 40 mph on the island! Must have devastated what little ice is left!

Dan

[codeman671]

Originally Posted by ishoot308

Wind was brutal last night! Gusts to 40 mph on the island! Must have devastated what little ice is left!

Dan

Todays photo dump shows considerable ice loss on both ends of this area.

We had winds to 45mph yesterday on the hill and 34.7mph so far since midnight. My weather station can be seen live at www.ambientweather.net. Pretty neat to be able to see all of the different locations monitoring around the lake.

[Descant]

If there is little or no ice fishing this year does that bode well for next summer or winter?

[ishoot308]

Originally Posted by Descant

If there is little or no ice fishing this year does that bode well for next summer or winter?

Ice fishing has little to no effect on the fishery in general. If anything ice fishing helps cull some of the extreme over abundance of lake trout in the lake!

I think the biggest effect of no or little ice cover, is an increase of invasive weed growth, especially in shallow water and coves. This is due to the increased amount of sunlight getting through to the bottom stimulating photosynthesis …one of the reasons I am not a fan of bubblers or ice eaters…

Dan

[fatlazyless]

So, will the broads area from Rattlesnake to Tuftonboro/Wolfeboro shown in the Snake Eyes Cam be re-freez'n in the next 24 to 48 hours? My best guess is ..... maybe!

The WinniCam water temp in the Weirs channel says 36-degrees.

The NH DES water temp graph in this website says it is currently down to 34.75-degrees.

If I were to make a bet on it, I would say fuhgetaboutit because I never bet on anything or buy any lottery tickets, never ....... but who knows ...... maybe it will actually freeze solid, once again?

Its been feeling a LOT like real winter, the last few days just in time for the big Massachusetts school vacation ski week? Is now time to be doing an ice dance if you care about the Lake Winnipesaukee ice freezing all totally solid ice

[ishoot308]

Originally Posted by fatlazyless

So, will the broads area from Rattlesnake to Tuftonboro/Wolfeboro shown in the Snake Eyes Cam be re-freez'n in the next 24 to 48 hours? My best guess is ..... maybe!

Not a chance in my opinion…From my view, the broads are totally open from Governors Island to Blacks Point at the mouth of Alton. Nothing but wind and white caps! Winds are currently gusting to 28 mph with no let up till sometime tomorrow. Temps back up in the low to mid 40’s for Thursday and Friday with rain coming in on Friday….

Enjoy a very early ice out this year!

Dan

[codeman671]

The last few mornings have been glazed over out front, but by late morning it was gone again. The band between Rattlesnake and Rt 11 is still holding in there, but it should take a beating today with the wind. High gust 0f 35.6mph since midnight.

I am still seeing snowmobiles out by our place on East Bear. Too hearty for me!

[retired]

Declaration of ice in seems pointless when the lake freezes over one night and the wind opens it up again the next day or two. Maybe the criteria needs to change to having the ice stay for a period of time. Maybe one week. Ice in is declared one day and ice out the next???

[ishoot308]

Even Opechee is wide open!

[chachee52]

Originally Posted by retired

Declaration of ice in seems pointless when the lake freezes over one night and the wind opens it up again the next day or two. Maybe the criteria needs to change to having the ice stay for a period of time. Maybe one week. Ice in is declared one day and ice out the next???

I agree, I never saw any ice on the broads and I was there right before it was supposedly declared, and that afternoon and it was all wide open. So it must have been an hour or 2 that there was ice. But that's just one set of eyes.

[ishoot308]

Originally Posted by chachee52

I agree, I never saw any ice on the broads and I was there right before it was supposedly declared, and that afternoon and it was all wide open. So it must have been an hour or 2 that there was ice. But that's just one set of eyes.

It was actually iced in for three days. Emerson didn’t fly over till the third day when he declared ice in. The time and date of ice in is all determined when Emerson feels like flying….

Dan

[Descant]

Originally Posted by ishoot308

It was actually iced in for three days. Emerson didn’t fly over till the third day when he declared ice in. The time and date of ice in is all determined when Emerson feels like flying….

Dan

I recall that week, the runway was closed due to tree work at the end of the runway.

[ITD]

So this ice in business is getting a little out of hand imo. For the purposes of this board ice in should mean the inability of the Mount to get to all her ports and leave it at that. If you make this into a science project you could argue that the lake never technically ices in, there is always unfrozen water in the lake.

Declare “ice in” when the Mount can’t make her ports, ice out when it finally can. Keep the gate keeper of when Emerson, with the understanding that he gets up when he is able and that could be days off from when each event happens due to circumstances beyond his control. But his declaration is final unless the webmaster decides otherwise.

[John Mercier]

Emerson declares Ice In and Ice Out as is tradition.