Mar. 22—Lake Auburn shows open water during a rainy March day in Auburn. The ice-out, on March 13, was the earliest on record. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal AUBURN — Lake Auburn set two ominous records last week, marking the earliest ice-out and least amount of days with ice cover since record-keeping began. The records fell in […]
The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office declared ice-out on Lake Minnetonka on Wednesday, just days shy of a record date amid a warm Minnesota winter. The declaration, made about 5:53 p.m. Wednesday, is the unofficial start of the boating season on the metro area’s largest lake, the Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. Officials on Wednesday […]
In a year in which weather records have been falling left and right, a longstanding one on Lake Minnetonka remained on the books. Officials from the nonprofit Freshwater and the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office Water Patrol had hoped to declare the metro area’s largest lake ice free Monday, which would have tied the record for […]