Date: 04/20/2019

Number: 1

Big announcement seen on the Star-Tribune website:
"The boating season unofficially opened at 1:46 p.m. Saturday as ice-out was declared on Lake Minnetonka, coming close to the normal time for ice-out despite the past winter's bizarre weather.

The Hennepin County Sheriff's Office Water Patrol and the Freshwater Society officially announced ice-out on the metro area's largest lake just one week past the lake's median ice-out date.

By the Water Patrol's definition, ice-out doesn't mean every crystal of ice has vanished from the water, but that a boat can safely maneuver through the lake's 37 bays and channels without frozen obstruction. With much of the lake having long since opened, boaters have already been out riding its waters."

"Lake Minnetonka opened up last year on May 5, tying 1857 for the latest date on record. The earliest recorded ice-out on Minnetonka was March 11 in 1878."

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