"Official" Ice Out Thread
 

Just wondering.....Island Girl usually posts it every year.

BT

Edit: 4/11/19 The Webmaster has designated this as the Official Ice Out thread.

Maybe moving quickly?
 

I know a lot of people up around the lake are still saying a few more weeks, but the webcams look promising! Fingers crossed for warmth and wind. I always check the sat images everyday this time of year - yesterday's looks good!
Attachment 14616 from https://bit.ly/2VqNivQ

Things could maybe start to move along now, with the ice-out. Looking out all the hugely expensive mega windows from my mega-million dollar lakeside mcmansion, it sure enuf lookie likie that there dun ice is finally going from winter white, over to ice-out gray.

The ice likes to change colors, and go from white to gray, as it slowly changes from strong, safe ice to mushy slush.

There was a NH story from somewhere in southern New Hampshire yesterday, about someone who drowned while trying to rescue their dog that had broken through the ice. Both man and dog drowned. Will try to find a working link. It would be informative if there was an actual video of the drowning, because it is supposedly possible to drown very quickly, like in 45-seconds, after falling through ice, if you immediately inhale a small amount of water. What with the cold shock of the icy cold, 34-degree water, and the inhalation of a small amount of water by gasping, it all supposedly happens fast ..... is all conjecture how it happened?

Thursday or Friday, April 4 or 5, 2019: Meeting House Pond, Marlborough, NH, (just south-east of Keene) 49-yards from shore in about 12' water depth; man tried using a tree branch to rescue his golden retriever ...... www.sentinelsource.com has a short report with photograph, 5-free reads accessible without a pay wall

Lake Massebessic is ice free - was actually surprised when I took a ride by yesterday and it was wide open water.

Typically Winni is +\- two weeks behind.

Thank you :):) specifically for this report of ice out on Lake Massebessic. Have not had an opportunity to go by it this spring. 2 to 2-1/2 weeks ago little beaver lake in derry looked like it was locked in for a few weeks and it was all gone in a day was really surprised at how quick it disappeared.

Thank you.

Boat ramps are open too. The gate was open on the one near the traffic circle.

Anyone know the status for Lilly Pond? Good indicator for Winni Ice-Out

It was ice early this morning. I think that Dave still works for a living and may pass by tomorrow and have a report.

Alan

Plenty of snowmobiles on the ice in tuftonboro this weekend.

Emerson Aviation is posting pics of the lake ice and there are some holes out there starting to form so anyone out there on a snow machine now is really asking for trouble.

does any one have any pictures or info from Alton Bay (not the west Alton cams)? Its been a few years since there has been a cam at the south end of the lake and I'm looking to see how far back the ice is pushed...Sandy Point?

Hit their facebook page.

Not sure how often they are going up.

With temps forecast to get warm, even maybe closing in on the 70 degree mark come Saturday I'd expect that the typical areas such as you are interested in will be opening up a lot especially if coupled with some wind.

Hopefully we're about two weeks or less... seeing it snow yesterday was rather disappointing!

Sandy Point - Ice is going
 

Here is a picture taken on the wall yesterday at Sandy Point. Looks like ice still in the channel by FL #23

I think it should be mostly gone in 2 weeks or less.

May Ice out this year
 

North end of the lake still has 20 to 30 inches of ice. Only a few warm days in the 15 day outlook. 70% of the days it will be cloudy. Need the sun to melt the ice.

Well if that is the case, might be longer. I'm curious to see how thick the ice really is currently.

That claim seems dubious to me. I would expect to see 20-30" mid winter, not 10 days into April.

Attachment 14663 Cut this block out of the lake on April 4th ! No early ice out this year ...

Bandstand
 

Yesterday to the bandstand, with open areas along the edges.

Dave

wow............

well that's depressing to see.

Not looking good from my camera either. In Meredith Bay the ice still looks white, I do not see any gray areas yet. :mad::fire::fire:

Ice !!
 

Wolfboro White snow cover as well as Winter Harbor, 19 & 20 mile bays. Did not see much open water anywhere. Snow on the ground in lots of places from Alton up East side of lake!! Will probably be near the end of April from what I saw.. I went to Cow Island on St Patricks day many years ago!! kerk 110

Lilly pond today only 10% to 15% open water.

looking at the islanders 2002 webcam on Bear Island looking back at Sheps, do my eyes deceive me or does it look like a boat is now at the dock that looks like it broke through the ice all the way from Sheps?

It doesn't look like a hovercraft but I'm pretty sure it hasn't been there all winter. If a small boat like that can break ice there...it is very encouraging that the ice may not be as thick as we all think.

scratch that...I just watched the video link and the boat is a fan boat that came came across the top of the ice early this morning. Pretty neat...never seen that on any cams before.

sluggo Ice Block
 

where on the lake did you cut this block of ice?

I went around the lake (by car) on Thursday ...
 

Alton: Water out to the band stand.

Wolfeboro, Libby Museum, Pier 19, Trexlers, Meredith: Water out about 50-300 feet, probably due to de-icing equipment on piers.

Twenty Mile Bay was ice right up to the shore.

I saw all ice on Mirror Lake

Winnisquam Lake south of Mohawk Island was all water.

Check out www.winnipesaukeecam.com. Open water at the north end, east side of Alton Bay.

a water way to diamond island

sorry i can't image to rotate 90 degrees

Wjt2 That block was from the area of Gansy island and the ice was just as thick out to Steamboat and Jolly islands. My thoughts for ice out is going to be around the 28th this year ...

ice
 

Going to very windy and pretty warm with lots of rain over the next 10 days. My take is that ice out will be sooner than most people think.

In addition to the warm temp, rain and wind the real ice eater “fog” is helping things this morning. [emoji4]


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Water expanding quickly in Tuftonboro/Moultonborough Bay

New NEST WEB CAM at WEIRS BEACH
 

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Don't Worry, Be Happy
 

In case you think the lake will not melt until June, here is a clip of last April 19 (2018). Looks pretty iced in. This will take a minute to download.


http://www.rattlesnakecam.com/video/4-19-18.mp4


Here is last April 23 with a little more action. Again takes a minute to download


http://www.rattlesnakecam.com/video/4-23-18.mp4


Ice Out was April 26th in 2018.


Have faith, it is coming!


IG


Thanks BT for starting the thread. I was remiss this year. You always have my back!

sluggo Ice Block
 

Gansy aka Ganzy aka Ganzey is quite a distance from Steamboat/Birch and Jolly. Gansy is between Ambrose Cove and Lee's Mills. Did you travel to Steamboat and Jolly for like measurements?
Just wondering.

It’s starting to look like spring...

I saw a fiberglass runabout running about on Winnisquam Saturday.

It was nice to see.

From the link above:

"This camera is missing in action."