Ice Out Game

Ok, starting today guess the date that you think the ice will go out on the west side. I will consider ice out when I can no longer see any ice from Siskos resort.

The winner gets a bait of choice from Sennett Tackle. Only one day per person. So, if I pick, for instance, April 5th, nobody else can guess that day. Understand? Good luck!

Taken so far:

April 8th Stopher
April 9th Leo
April 10th Robert TB
April 11th Kyle K.
April 12th CMK
April 13th Trav
April 14th udee2159
April 15th Mussky Maniac
April 16th Lonardi
April 17th riverrat 47
April 18th andracke
April 19th Scott Webster
(I'm gonna have to go with April 20th Bob) Snizz
April 21st Curleytail
April 22nd lil man tait
April 23rd Corey Meyer
April 24th deantre
April 25th Trixie
April 26th dfkiii
April 27th Keith M
April 28th makins117
April 29th Musky Mason
April 30th Crappiano
May 1st Mexican Marauder
May 2nd Cold Front

Yeah I understand!

I guess the ice dissipates on 4/16/09.

April 14th!

I will go with April 23. After I thought about it June 22 was not that good of a guess. :)


Corey Meyer

April 19th
Scott Webster

I will somewhat sweeten the pot by adding this flaptail to the winner as well.

Corey Meyer

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...seflaptail.jpg

I'm gonna go ahead and bid 4/20 Bob!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHdjqsSSa_A

Ok Meyer, here's my date. April 25

I'm in for April 26.

Hmm, wish I was up there to see what the ice looked like. I'm going to go with April 21st.

curleytail

I'll take the 22nd. do I get more guesses than everyone else like the guess the spot game??....Darn

tait

I will go April 24th, Deantre

april 18th please!!!

Hmmm. Today is the 2nd. The guessers all went late. I don't know do-do.


April 10. Good Friday. I like it.

April 17th
Rob Barabe

April 15th - Tax Day!

I'll take 4-27

Guess I have to take 4/28. Everyone else was too fast on this. Come on cold weather. Help me out here.

I'm thinking April 29th.

Musky Mason

Too early? Or too late? I think I'm going to have to go with early, I'll take the 13th. I think its still open.

By looking at the temp averages, I'll take April 30th.

Just to say I took a guess.....I'll take April 12th if it's still open.

Chris

Hey Ty,

Throw me down for April 11th.

the weather looks good the next few days helps hope the sun helps.

-Kyle

I'LL take may 1st for 2 baits !!!!!!!!!!!

April 12 is my guess

The Marauder got my day! I'm gonna take opening day May 2 and hope like hell i don't win!

Cold Front

need some warm weather but due to lack of better options, i'll say 4/11.

This is Jason Wright and I want April 13.

Tim Sennett wants the 12th.

whoops, sorry kyle k-didn't mean to drink your kool-aid...april 11th is all yours.

The 7th, 8th and 9th are the last days left. Releaseher and Leo, you can grab one of those. Actually they are good picks. The 9th should be close to ice out. I'm thinking the 10th or 11th but it might be earlier.

I'll take the 9th...

I guess I'll have to take the 8th now

Ok, now that the days are all taken I'm guessing it's going to be earlier than people think. Robert Boston should be right in the the general time period when I think it should go out. The pond in our back yard will be ice free by the end of today and usually the Chip is a few days behind that. I'm guessing the east side will be largely ice free in a couple days. That side seems to be going out fast. There are already large areas of open water. The west side is a little slower.

Whoa ! Far out ! I am really hoping General Time marches to a beat that favors the 10th. I wonder is he's a Marine? Hmmm.

It really is amazing how fast ice goes when it starts rotting and the wind blows. We've been ice free down here for a good month, I think.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed !

I think you are still on pace Robert.

Just looked at the NOAA satellite photos from yesterday and today...Grindstone has a huge black ice or open water area, and the Flowage ice is turning grey...could be soon. Other lakes in the area are still solid white, but a lot are going dark!
Tracker

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Nick Kanauz

Just looked at the NOAA satellite photos from yesterday and today...

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where did you find these? i am at work and too lazy to go searching...link please...

Space Science and Engineering Center, UW-Madison has such a glut of various satellite imaging its impossible to find them all. Worked there as an undergrad so worked on some cool things from Greenland to Antarctica. Anyway.

Here's your link though.

http://ge.ssec.wisc.edu/modis-today/

Then move the blue box over the area you are interested in and click.

Then change the image to 250m resolution for the largest zoom.

You can change the date in the top left if interested.

Its the about the highest resolution and closest to real-time satellite imaging I know of.

Trav

pretty cool...

Click Here!


Cropped to show just the chip...dissipating ice!

http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/748...pedflowage.jpg

Snizz-
Have always enjoyed your prowess with the com.
I originally found the site on NOAA by entering: Lake Superior Modis Imagery

It gives you the whole Great Lakes Region by Lake. When I bring it up from my favorites it says the above, but the Address line says:
http://coastwatch.glerl.noaa.gov/modis/modis.cgi/modis

Hope this helps. It is pretty neat to watch Springtime move North, the brown starts to turn to light then dark greens.

Best fishes,
Tracker
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