Yesterday afternoon Clary appeared to be fully ice covered and I was about to call it, but the bit of snow we received in the night has revealed some open water in the usual spot off the point at the end of Duncan Road, and a seam in the middle of the lake is evident as well, perhaps opened up due to the high wind this morning. In early winter there is often open water off Duncan Point (aka Young’s Point) due to the speed of the current there. We’ll see if the current ice cover will survive the warm and wet coastal storm due to blow through here this coming Friday into Saturday.

We have historical ice-in and ice-out data for Clary Lake going back to 2001. If anyone has data for years prior to 2001 I’d love to hear about it.