Date: 03/23/2017

Number: 1

"Everyone expected the ice to go out weeks ago, setting a new record. It didn’t happen. Instead, winter returned and the lake refroze.

“I’ve never seen that before,” said “ice lady” Jan Holtz Kraemer, the official ice-out watchman for White Bear Lake. “But at least it got people to stop thinking the ice was out.”

Kraemer announced the lake ice free on March 23, a week later than last year’s record date of March 16.

“There was still ice earlier in the day but once it started to rain, that was it,” she noted. “The ice was gone. Even the snow is gone this year.”

"The latest ice-out date remains May 4, 1950."

White Bear Lake, MN

Latitude: 45.1 Longitude: -93

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