Someone else posted an earlier question that would be interesting to debate.
Do we declare ice out for 2007 as January 1st at 12:00 AM?
By the definition, it qualifies.
Official ice out is declared when the M/S Mount Washington can reach all 4 of its ports without touching ice. This usually occurs during April. The earliest recorded ice out was March 28th, 1921 and the latest was May 12th, 1888.
However, this brings up the interesting debate of whether you can have ice out when you've never had ice in.
Cutting the point even finer, one could argue that there was at least a momentary qualification point within the last week or two as there was a point where the Mount could not have reached all of it's ports without touching ice, even if that ice was just a momentary thin layer. Was that "ice in"?
Ok folks. Time to determine case law here!
