"Out like a lamb: Ice is gone, spring is springing" "Clear Lake Water Superintendent Bob Powell said Wednesday afternoon there were a few pockets of crushed ice on the lake but they would be gone by nightfall." "His last call for ice-out came one week later this year than in 2009 but earlier than in 2008 when the ice-out date was April 14.
The earliest ice-out date on record was March 5, 1931. The latest was April 28, 1951."
Read the article and thanks to the Globe Gazette in Mason city, Iowa.
