Official 2015 Ice-In Thread
 

This is the Official 2015 Ice-in Thread. Please post your
comments about this year's Ice-in here.

There is ice in Moultonborough Bay and in some of the coves.

It is typically 33-35 degrees at the Weirs when the broads skims over. The Lake temp as of this morning, reported by the Winnipesaukee Dataphone is 35 degrees. (1-5-2015) The forecast this week is for very cold temperatures. There will be little wind Wednesday January 7th. We can hope for the lake to skim over.

The Ice-in page went live a few minutes ago at www.rattlesnakecam.com/icein.htm. If you have a webcam or know of one, please post the information in this thread and I will add it to the page. If you have a webcam that I have in the defunct section of the ice in page, please post here if it will be coming back at some point.

For those of us who are addicted to watching the lake freeze, enjoy. If you are new to the lake, come back often and watch the progress of Ice-in!

Please visit this thread for the latest news and the Ice-in page for current images of the freezing progress. (Please click on the ads at webcam sites and support the sponsors. This provides revenue to keep the cams alive)

As always Please post your pics of the freezing lake here.

See you on the ice!
IG

PS: My site was hacked some time ago and I am in the process of repairing the broken links. Thanks for your patience.

Thanks IG
 

I look forward to your "Ice In" page post every year, thanks for the winter enjoyment!

think Ice out !!

:D

is it ?? I want to get out on a liquid big lake

I'm seeing some new ice on the webcams today.

WCYC Cam
 

The URL for the Wolfeboro Corinthian Yacht Club cam is :
http://www.wcycnh.com/web-cam.html

Live video feed.

In front of Black Cat just froze over
 

As I sit here in my office on Tuesday afternoon at about 3:00 I just saw the entire span of my view on the SW side of Black Cat turn from open water to ice in the matter of about 30 minutes. After ten years at this location that was a first for me.

One ice house on Alton Bay...
 

I believe that it is a bob house owned by the man who is the airport manager for the ice runway. It will serve mainly as a hospitality hut for the runway.

Not sure how thick the ice is, but he is very careful about getting out on the ice.

Top pic is at 2:30pm today, on the dropcam I could see the water moving a bit. At 4:00pm I looked at snake eyes and was surprised to see ice, I went back and looked and the broads had a thin sheet of ice (bottom pic). Thought I'd share.

Today was a tipping point day I think...lots more ice everywhere! However, we are one day closer to "Ice Out".

Since 2:05 pm when I last posted, all those places that were water are now ice. Pretty cool. Never seen it lock up in real time...in a manner of speaking.

That was fast
 

Here is a shot from Snake Eyes after 3 today. If you go to rattlesnakecam.com and click on Time Lapse Videos you can see the ice form. Really cool... so to speak!

IG

Hopefully the forecasted winds won't undo what's already in place.....

locked up from end long island over to jolly Island now. won't see "wahta" now util spring! all we need now is about a foot of snow for sledding

Watch out for air gaps
 

Be extra careful with ice along the shore. The lake is about a foot high and the dam is running fast to lower it. On Jan 6, while checking ice thickness, I found areas along the shore with just one inch of weak ice over top an air gap. Once out about a foot, the ice was at least 3" and safe for walking.

In the past I took images saved every 30 seconds from the BearCam to create ice and and ice out videos. You can watch the process of several days in just 1 minute.

Ice In

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ippl-XSUseU

Ice Out

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Meredith Bay on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LakeWinnipesaukee?src=hash">#LakeWinnipesaukee</a> is iced over this morning for the 1st time this season. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WeirsBeach?src=hash">#WeirsBeach</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SurfSkiWxMan">@SurfSkiWxMan</a> <a href="http://t.co/Z0g27bt7fN">pic.twitter.com/Z0g27bt7fN</a></p>&mdash; Lake Winnipesaukee (@iWinnipesaukee) <a href="https://twitter.com/iWinnipesaukee/status/552847563481944064">January 7, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Winnisquam
 

Checked my camera this morning and it looks like Winnisquam is mostly skimmed over in front of our place on the west side just south of Pot Island. 2 days ago there were wave crashing on the shore.

The last open areas on Merrymeeting closed up last night, and I heard several expansion booms during the night. Ice-In is here and the ice is expanding rapidly.

comment....
 

your :really cool, so to speak" comment was really cold......lol!

LOVE these cameras! They are such fun to watch. Good thing your dock wasn't in the water, BI, when that ice came back.

Ice out
 

The broads ice in front of Snake Eyes has just blown away. :(

Ice thickness
 

Is there a certain thickness the ice is, as an average when ice-out happens, as we watched in Bear Islander's video?

Here's the fat part
 

of Moultonborough Bay, this morning (1/7/15). It's all iced in.

Snake Eyes
 

Looks like Broads open again on Snake Eyes webcam

More open today
 

The upper photo was taken yesterday at about 11 am from Belknap Point. The lower photo is about 8 am today, temp minus 10 deg.

Yesterday there was ice from Ames Farm out to Diamond, all open today. The wind really did a job on any thin ice.

Any info on ice at Meredith Bay? I'm supposed to be playing in the Pond Hockey Classic in three weeks. Think Mother Nature can get her act together before then?

Alton to Laconia to Alton
 

As you can see from Slickcraft's photo from today, there is a lot of "sea smoke" (fog) coming off the surface of open water. That is the bad news. The good news should be that Mother Nature is taking a lot of heat out of the water, and if the winds will just lay down, the ice should form rather quickly. Here's hopin'!!!!;)

Open Water
 

A quick look at the lake smoke on the various webcams around the lake reveal the open water spots. The wind has been dying down this morning... perhaps a skim of ice soon?

IG
www.rattlesnakecam.com/icein.htm

;)

Here's what it looks like from Rattlesnake, facing west as of 1/8/15 @ a little after noon.

This is from http://www.rattlesnakeisland.net/cam.htm

http://www.rattlesnakeisland.net/ice_in.jpg

Taken early this morning of Ellacoya all the way to Big Pier at Lake Shore Park

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I want ice-in, but.......
 

Here is my dock a few minutes ago. I believe the icicles from the dock are at water level and the ones on the posts are under the water. This cam shows water movement which leads me to think this. The gray color at the bottom of the ice on the posts has water lapping against it.

My concern is that if the lake freezes and the water level goes down significantly over the next few days, will the ice take my dock down with it? Opinions please?

Hope not
 

Poor Ralph if it does

Fro0m Erika's Cam
 

You can see a lot of open water here.

Future Darwin Award Winners?
 

48 hours ago I reported that I just watched the lake freeze over before my eyes. Right now I am watching a group of about 10 people skating together between 3 Mile and Beaver Islands about 1/2 mile out in front of me. Yikes.

Watching the broads freeze
 

The wind has died down and ice chips are forming... perhaps it will freeze now!!!! :D

Mindful of what Yogi said about predictions I won't make one. I will say that with a light WSW wind that I would not be surprised to see it firm up tonight between Lincoln Park and Welch.

The section north of Diamond is quite another matter.

It is supposed to be very windy again tomorrow and Saturday. Unless it closes up tonight, it will probably stay open again for a while longer.

IG, do you have a bubbler/ ice eater? I can see one on the picture. If you do you are ok, if you don't, my only experience was a few years ago my bubbler died and we have the same ice on the post situation and the ice formed around it and looked like it grew around it and didn't seem to bother the dock. The one thing we have learned is that no two years are the same, the differences are fascinating to watch and recall from year to year.

The bubbler has been key for our fixed post dock, this year it isn't working (I can see it on my webcam) so I will need to go chip it out once the ice is strong enough to get there.

Broken/old link
 

this has nothing to do with ice-in.....

("listen carefully as our menu options have changed......")
the link to "mcdude's menus" on the ice-in page has moved to......

http://www.belknaplakes.com/Restaurants___Take-Out.html