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Originally Posted by Blue Thunder
IMHO, it will be some time, and certainly not before the first of the new year before "ice in" occurs. The lake is very deep and it takes quite a while to get the water temp down to the uniform 39 degrees necessary for ice formation to commence on the surface. It also takes many successive cold nights of well below freezing temps and we generally don't get that kind of deep cold until early January. Sit back and relax...enjoy the Holidays!
Blue Thunder
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Only needs to be 39 degrees to freeze? Is that someting like the reason I get frost on my car when it is 38 degrees?
A big factor with ice formation is the wind, there have been years when it was so windy that the ice never did completely form.