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...