Friday, February 06, 2026

Do you think they'll call it? Update: They called it on the 13th.

 Lake Champlain is frozen over:  Shot from this morning:


This happens a lot--the lake clearly freezes, but doesn't get officially called.  It supports the narrative that it's becoming a thing of the past.

They may have to cave and call it, it won't be higher than 25F for the next week:


I will keep monitoring this site, to see if a call is made.


https://www.weather.gov/btv/lakeclose

An image from Feb 9th--If they don't call it closed this year, that accounts for at least some of the recent rarity of the lake freezing over:  They are defining it ever more strictly, or just pretending it hasn't frozen and counting on us trusting calls from years ago.


2/12/26 update:  Still not showing it closed but...




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