It's going to be close for some northern lakes

It's going to be close for some northern lakes

Source: echopress

4/21/2023

Credit: John Downing, University of Minnesota Sea Grant

Wisconsin's opener is only two weeks away and Minnesota's is in three weeks, but a University of Minnesota lakes expert is cautiously optimistic.

A little more than a month ago, John Downing, a limnologist who heads the University of Minnesota Sea Grant program, crunched some historical and meteorological data to predict a later-than-normal ice-out for northern Minnesota lakes