The StarTribune is reporting:
Visitors aren’t booking cruises, buying boats or reserving boat slips
at past years’ rates, unable to think spring in the wintry weather.
Events like this weekend’s Lake Minnetonka Crappie Contest
in Excelsior were postponed. And experts predict that if the snow and
cold continue, the ice-out won’t take place until the first week of May —
something that hasn’t happened in nearly half a century.
“It’s driving people crazy,” said Bob Turgeon, a
Lake Minnetonka fishing guide whose Facebook feeds are full of
fishermen’s posts bemoaning boats holed up in garages or warehouses
instead of out on the water in search of panfish. “It’s been a long
winter; you want to get out.”
This day last year, Minnetonka, the state’s
ninth-largest lake, had been ice-free for a month, driving up boating
traffic to the highest levels in recent years.
But now, like many lakes across Minnesota, it’s still covered with 18
inches of ice, passing the average April 15 ice-out date and creeping up
on the May 11 fishing opener.
“We’re a land of extremes,” said Pete Boulay, a state climatologist. “Maybe it’s payback for last year.”
Latest ice-out was May 8.
Let's see what it is this year. I wonder if the President or Algore will visit?
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