Lake Monona Ice Views - Revisited

Three weeks ago I pulled off to take some pictures of the Lake Monona ice during a beautiful late fall day with temperatures above freezing, link here.  Since then the weather has turned a bit even before the season officially changed to winter.  We've been in a deep freeze, nothing we can't deal with and not as cold as we've seen at its worst, but for a full two weeks now our low temperatures have gotten below 0ºF every night with highs in the single digits and maybe the teens if we got lucky.  That's a lot of cold weather.

These were taken from the same place I stopped 3 weeks ago, the site of the Olbrich Biergarten.   Since then we've had a few light snowfalls, aside from the cold Canadian air that keeps diving south.  The temperature at this time today is about 5ºF (-15ºC).

Facing off to the left, south, there is no longer any open water and no water fowl in sight.


We have frost forming on the concrete in a top corner of the basement, the humidifier is on maximum, and we've been cheating the thermostat higher than set every day, but overall there's been few issues for us personally, due to the cold.

As I turn to my right you start to see all the ice fisherman that have taken up residence on this part of the lake.


Across the city there have been water mains freezing every day, pavement has buckled due to the cold on the highways causing multi-car accidents, and at least 3 local deaths due to the cold.

Again with the ice fisherman, the isthmus in the background.


The good news is that starting tomorrow we get warmer, back up to where we should be normally and even a little more. Highs this coming week are expected to be around the freezing mark, 32ºF (0ºC), thankfully.

I'll finish with the usual, a view of the State Capitol on the downtown isthmus.


Wherever you are I hope you are keeping warm!  A few more shots after the break: