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Freeze-up Lake Temagami froze over last night. After Monday's (Dec.15) warm spell, rising to 6 C, the temperature dropped below freezing and stayed there, never rising above minus 6. The call on freeze-up was made from today's views through clouds on two satellite images from different satellites passing over at different times. Lake Temagami is our standard bearer for the call. Glen Toogood, our official observer in past years, no longer lives on the lake. In the area, the only holdouts – and the usual ones – appear to be Ottawa River and Lake Wanapitei.
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Rain and warmth stall freeze-up Temperatures went haywire, jumped above freezing, and it rained.
A hoary Ishpatina Two wintry photos of Ontario's highest point.
Ice travel dicey I was on two inches (in my snow machine), and less, of ice. Philips Bay at Temagami Island is dangerous with lots of slush and an inch of shitty ice in places. Just cause I'm crazy enough to do it doesn't mean every one should be. If you can't do it at 90 mph...don't! — Gerry Gooderham, Ogama Island Just the deepest left Only the deepest lakes and the Ottawa River remain — and it rarely entirely freezes over.
Hub of Lake Temagami freezes Yesterday, the ice between Bear Island and the landing froze enough to support snow machine traffic. On Monday, Gerry and Sue Gooderham took a boat to the landing from Ogama Island, between Bear and Temagami islands. They broke an inch and a half of ice all the way. The temperature was minus 25 C. After more low temperatures last night, Gooderham estimates that 75 per cent of the lake is frozen today — and he wasn't far off, as this image shows. |
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December 8 — Two playful otters came up onto the ice, with a ling and a pickerel (walleye), in the wake of Gooderham's boat off Ogama Island, Lake Temagami. |
DECEMBER
More of Lady Evelyn, Obabika, Temagami, Rabbit and Anima Nipissing lakes have visibly closed in this excellent image from the satellite.
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December 7 – Ogama Island, Lake Temagami |
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Lake Temagami freezing Yesterday Obabika Inlet, and most of the Southwest Arm and Cross Lake froze.
DECEMBER Freeze-up spreads
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