O.K.
No prizes offered by me , but lets start the ball rolling with the ice out predictions.
Maybe somebody will step forward that will confirm the dates.
My choice is April 25,2025
May 3rd this year is my guess.
April 9th
Great idea to get this going!
I am in for April 12th for this prediction.
But i would love it to be sooner..lol.
Going for an early one this year. April 20th
April 15th
April 28 is my guess.
April 30th
I'm going with April 22nd.
April 15
April 21
April 23 please
May 12, 2025
I'm with Johnny, something good has to happen on April 15th!
Who's going to do the official ice out call this year?
May 9th to commemorate my sister's 68th birthday.
Looks like Michelle's guess ?
April 30 - maybe May 1 for the last bits
Wind is blowing the ice off today
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BhuxnELjk/
Seems April 30th is the winner.
Congrats
@michelle we will be in touch early next week about a prize.....
Yay! That's pretty unexpected. The way the weather was going I thought would be much later! Hoping to start our holidays and drive in on May 9 and that we can drive into our camp road by then. Supposed to get more rain tonight, fingers crossed the Maniwaki and Bearn are passable by then. I sure hope so. It's been a long winter!
https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?v=-79.9830424469791,46.39235250581657,-77.86115297984578,47.39914485194077&t=2025-05-04-T14%3A45%3A42Z
I don't know who called it but I still see ice at the north end May 4th.
Quote from: RHYBAK on May 05, 2025, 12:00:19 PMhttps://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?v=-79.9830424469791,46.39235250581657,-77.86115297984578,47.39914485194077&t=2025-05-04-T14%3A45%3A42Z
I don't know who called it but I still see ice at the north end May 4th.
Good point John, I was going by the post by reelpro and the facebook post, my bad.
Many apologies
@michelle
All good, no worries!
Anyone want to make the official call?
Quote from: RHYBAK on May 05, 2025, 12:00:19 PMhttps://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?v=-79.9830424469791,46.39235250581657,-77.86115297984578,47.39914485194077&t=2025-05-04-T14%3A45%3A42Z
I don't know who called it but I still see ice at the north end May 4th.
The lake skimmed over at night a few times since April 30 - we have had a few -5 mornings and a skim of ice - melted off through the am each time.
But Ice was out on April 30, you could boat anywhere in the lake - except perhaps very Northern tip , not sure never went there.
I would still say ice out was April 30 this year
Quote from: reelpro on May 09, 2025, 10:00:03 AMQuote from: RHYBAK on May 05, 2025, 12:00:19 PMhttps://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?v=-79.9830424469791,46.39235250581657,-77.86115297984578,47.39914485194077&t=2025-05-04-T14%3A45%3A42Z
I don't know who called it but I still see ice at the north end May 4th.
The lake skimmed over at night a few times since April 30 - we have had a few -5 mornings and a skim of ice - melted off through the am each time.
But Ice was out on April 30, you could boat anywhere in the lake - except perhaps very Northern tip , not sure never went there.
I would still say ice out was April 30 this year
Wow
you're persistent.
I looked on the earth satellite shot and there was still ice in the northern half of the late.
I'd say you were wrong
https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?v=-80.26358068045549,46.36031176053349,-77.58326271837295,47.632066793584116&t=2025-05-04-T14%3A45%3A42Z
Here is what May 2 looked like.
Too bad we can't get a shot of the two previous days
Not to add fuel to the fire but for the last two years we have relied on locals making the call. But i do know we've also used satellite images as a method when local advice wasn't avail.
So I guess the real question is what method are we using as the benchmark to make the call? Locals, satellite? Other?
I'll let you guys duke it out, I'm personally fine with what ever the majority thinks is best. I was just hoping to get a prize out to the lucky winner......
Anyone else care to chime in?
Or we just drop it entirely this year and agree there is no agreed upon official date for 2025 and thus no prize.
Just trying to keep things light and fun....
The intent of this thread is to provide forum fodder during the winter. Who cares when the ice "actually" went off? Really. It was sometime before today and after April 1st...there.
Opener is on Friday...why isn't anyone talking about that?
Quote from: T-Bone on May 14, 2025, 10:16:35 AMThe intent of this thread is to provide forum fodder during the winter. Who cares when the ice "actually" went off? Really. It was sometime before today and after April 1st...there.
Opener is on Friday...why isn't anyone talking about that?
Thank you, well said....
With all this out of the way, let's again congratulate
@michelle for guessing the correct date lol.
We'll reach out to you early next week and arrange a prize.
Have a great season everyone...