Great Lakes Ice Update.

Most of those predictions are for Superior. We've had a large ice cover on Huron/Georgian Bay before. We may be swimming in late June as opposed to Early June, but I looked over the ice out charts for the past 15 or so years, and it hasn't been later than the 2nd week in April. Local marina still says its putting boats in the water in March. Once their winterfest activities wrap up end of this month, they toss the ice eaters in.
 
Molson said:
Most of those predictions are for Superior. We've had a large ice cover on Huron/Georgian Bay before. We may be swimming in late June as opposed to Early June, but I looked over the ice out charts for the past 15 or so years, and it hasn't been later than the 2nd week in April. Local marina still says its putting boats in the water in March. Once their winterfest activities wrap up end of this month, they toss the ice eaters in.
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I know everyone wants to be on the water as soon as possible after a long winter up north, but as long as I am in the water the weekend before the May long weekend, I am OK. A lot of spring cleaning, compounding and waxing etc. is easier on land. I hope we get some hot weather early in the spring though. I love swimming in the Bay, but not until it hits 72 degrees or so.
 
yeah there won't be any boats in the water in March in Michigan I don't care where you're at....Georgian bay or not, there hasn't been this thick of ICE in over 30 years so you need to go back in your Datam and research 30-40 Ice Outs.....
This ice on Lake Michigan is 36" deep.....it's going to be awhile...
 
There's still a lot of open water on MI. Near shore in the bays the ice may be thick but not necessarily thick way out. The sun will shine, wind will blow, and there'll be boats on the water some where. Here's a pic of todays ice cover...lots of blue...note that even in the north it is not actually solid, the sheet is busted up. http://coastwatch.glerl.noaa.gov/we...image=a1.14047.1936.LakeMichigan.143.250m.jpg
 
Here's a neat NOAA animation. You can run the last 60 days and see how the ice coverage changed. I thought it was easiest to pause it and just click the prev or next buttons. It appears we peaked a few days ago and total GL ice coverage has dropped by approx 6-8%. Note that they monitor ice concentration/area % which means there is probably ice everywhere but not frozen over, approx 20% of Lake MI surface is currently water. http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/glcfs/anim.php?lake=l&param=glsea&type=n
 
Woody that is a great Link. I'm passing that on to the land locked losers I hang around with!
 
Summertime In Milwaukee we have this saying, "COOLER NEAR THE LAKE"! We may have to change that to FRIGG"N COLD AT THE LAKE!
Hoping for an unusually warm spring!
 
Shoot I will happy to get in the water before May 1....


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You guys and your worrying.... Remember last years picks of NO water in some of the channel leading out to Lake Michigan???? Come on ..... At least we're going to have water under the boats this year hell my marina will still be dredging from last years disaster the river brought down so much sand it filled in 50% of the marina soooo stop complaining , or I'm going to go off on you people , don't make me go Gary on yeah all.


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I'm going to train for this summers cold Superior water. If it's real bad I might have to wear a swim trunks.:grin: You gotta get psyched up for it... it's not really cold, it just feels cold...tell yourself that and everything'll be fine.
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"And the signs continue pointing upward. The snow's water content is the highest in a decade on Lakes Superior, Michigan and Huron. The snowpack is the equivalent of 9.5 inches of water around Lake Superior. It holds 4 to 8 inches of water in the Huron-Michigan basin, 3.8 inches around Lake Ontario and 1.8 inches around Lake Erie.

Ice cover has prevented evaporation and could keep water temperatures cool enough to delay the next period of heavy water loss to the atmosphere, Leshkevich said."

"A short-term forecast prepared by the Army Corps predicts water levels will continue rising for the next six months. Michigan-Huron are expected to be 9 to 14 inches higher than during that period in 2013 - although they'd still be 9 to 12 inches below their long-term average."

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...ME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-03-05-23-07-43

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