First ice report for 2009

[dreamshark]

Not such a pretty day as yesterday, but warm enough that it seemed like the time to get out the home bike and check out the status of the ice on Lake Harriet. Yup, there's still ice on Lake Harriet. Quite a lot of ice, in fact. It's starting to decay around the edges, but only a little. There is one thin open channel parallel to the shoreline on the north side of the lake. It always melts first on that side.

I followed my weather tags to last year's entries and see that last year's ice out was in mid-April. It looks like we're on target for about the same date this year.