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unhappycamper

(60,364 posts) Sat Mar 19, 2016, 06:47 AM Mar 2016

Earliest ever ice-out declared on Lake Winnipesaukee

http://www.wcvb.com/news/earliest-ever-iceout-declared-on-lake-winnipesaukee/38582610

Ice-out also declared on Lake Sunapee

Earliest ever ice-out declared on Lake Winnipesaukee
Published 12:39 PM EDT Mar 18, 2016

MEREDITH, N.H. —Ice-out on Lake Winnipesaukee was declared Friday, the earliest date in recorded history.

Dave Emerson of Emerson Aviation made the declaration Friday, just over a month after declaring that the lake was finally iced over.

Ice-out was also declared Friday on Lake Sunapee, the earliest date recorded since at least 1869, when dates were first charted.

As of Friday, it has been one of the warmest and least snowy New Hampshire winters in recorded history.