I know when I was young, I couldn’t wait to get our snowmobiles onto the lake to drive them. Another concern of mine with snow covering the ice are kids and snowmobiles. As people start exploring more and more lakes it becomes more important to check the ice as frequent as possible because we can no longer see that the ice looks different as we are walking. Now that we have snow covered ice it is harder to see the color of the ice and make sure we always have safe ice underneath us. Hopefully we had enough wind during the storm Sunday night and Monday to blow the snow off the ice so it can keep forming. This causes anyone using the lakes either for fishing or snowmobiling headaches all year long.
As more and more weight push down from above any crack or hole that is drilled starts flooding the area. As you add weight on top of the ice it sinks down a little bit and as the ice sinks down it cracks slightly on the bottom side as it stretches.
Ice on the lake is not a ridged structure that many people think it is but, it’s a lot like a trampoline. Saturday, the temps dropped allowing our ice to freeze and heal itself but sadly it didn’t have enough time to heal itself completely and that may hurt us in the long run of the season. Those weeds absorbed the suns heat and started making the ice melt and it looked a lot like late ice but in December. I was on a lake Friday after the warmup and there were lots of sketchy spots from the warmup especially near any standing weeds. With that extra weight on top of the ice it is and will potentially cause flooding and slush pockets on top of our ice. Snow on the ground is a good thing, it helps reflect the suns energy and stops the ground from heating up especially along shorelines and keeps our ambient temperatures colder but on the other hand, it has put a blanket on top of the ice preventing the cold temps from forming as thick of ice as possible. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…but what does it mean for our local lakes and the yearly tradition of fishing out of our hard sided fish houses during Christmas? In our area we received a fair amount of snow from 3-8 inches this past weekend and after the storm passed it brought us lots of arctic air that we needed prior sadly.
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