Ice Begins to Form on Wawa Lake & History

Nov 29, 2014 @ 12:20

 

Yesterday the water on Wawa Lake was beautiful. It was a rich, deep, dark blue with shimmers of black as the waves moved. Today… It’s a whole other story.

 

The ice has begun to form. This is the second earliest date from the charted dates below, by a mere 2 days. November 26th, 1959 is the date that Wawa Lake was earliest frozen. Unfortunately, for those who are worried about climate change – this year was the latest that the lake was open.

Andy Stevens compiled the chart below, but there are dates missing. If you have information that would make this chart complete, please email brenda at wawa-news.com.

 

YEAR	OPEN			FROZEN
1949	May	2		December	5
1950
1951	May	3		December	11
1952
1953	May	10		December
1954
1955	April	28		December	10
1956	May	15		December	10
1957	May	13		December	11
1958	April	23		December	8
1959	May	7		November	26	Earliest FROZEN
1960	May	13		December	12
1961	May	8		December	15
1962	May	11		December	12
1963	May	17		December	20
1964	May	3		December	6
1965	May	9		December	6
1966	May	11		December	2
1967				December	16
1968	April	28		December	14
1969	May	11		December	15
1970	May	4		December	Late
1971	May	10		December	17
1972	May	10		December	20
1973	April	21		December	11
1974	May	12		December	17
1975	May	9		December	9
1976	April	30		December	20
1977	April	25
1978	May	13		December	3
1979	May	11		December	14
1980	April			December	9
1981	May	3		December	15
1982	May	12		December	13
1983	May	11		December	7
1984	April	28		December	18
1985	May	8		December	12
1986	April	28		December	12
1987	April	20	Earliest OPEN	December	23
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999				December	23
2000				December	12
2001				December	25	Latest FROZEN
2002				December	3
2003				December	3
2004				December	17
2005				December	15
2006				December	6
2007				December	4
2008				December	15
2009				December	17
2010				December	15
2011				December	17
2012				December	22
2013				December	7
2014	May	21	Latest OPEN	November	28
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