At 11 a.m.
Black Cat has 6.1" for a storm total, with light snow still falling. Expect another inch or two for the rest of the day today. Tomorrow, we have just enough of a break to push the snowbanks back, before Saturday's snowstorm gets going. The snow pack is now 22 inches, the deepest it's been all winter.
Unfortunately I don't think the temps will get cold enough to freeze all the slush on the lake in the next 24 hours. We would need a very, very cold stretch of weather to do that. There is now a lot of snowcover now on the lake ice , a very thick insulation blanket. The lake ice never had a chance to get truly solid this year, even though it covers the whole lake. So watch out if you're bringing heavy vehicles out there. This winter it will be hard to tell the difference between an area of slush and an area of weak ice.