4/27/08 – Northern Minnesota is having trouble shaking winter this year. The latest storm dropped an inch of rain followed by 2.5″ of snow and a low temperature of 19 degrees. The standing water around the edges of the lake have refrozen and every tree is covered with snow. It doesn’t look good for ice out until next week sometime. – Bill

Lee drills yet another hole. I would have used a more original picture, but the camera battery went dead after one picture. The ice was 14.5″ thick today. The ice is floating at least a foot higher than it was three days ago and the streams are all in full flood.