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Snow is an amazing insulator. Try drilling a hole in a track or spot with no snow and drill one in the fluffy stuff and check the difference. Losing an inch of ice has to be from the circulator though. How far from the circulator do you test?
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I fished a pond near Brookings today. Right at 12 inches of ice.
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Snow is an amazing insulator. Try drilling a hole in a track or spot with no snow and drill one in the fluffy stuff and check the difference. Losing an inch of ice has to be from the circulator though. How far from the circulator do you test? A long distance from the circulator. I am guessing 50 plus meters.
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I'm a little baffled then.
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Dwight, I think your thoughts are right on the money.
My groundwater pond normally has half the ice thickness of the local lakes ice. I notice the same effect you do when there is snow on the ice.
If it's thick enough to take the Mule out on it, plow off the snow from a 20' square area or so and test the ice thickness in that area a few days later.
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The circulator affects the whole pond. When the water is open on a calm morning it puts a ripple on the whole 5 acres. Even under the ice it is moving water.
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Odd turn of events..... Even though it has been cold (around 0 F most nights) the ice thickness has dropped by an inch. How can this be? I offer the theory that the 6 inches of light snow on top of the ice is having an insulating effect. That, along with the circulator moving warm (relatively speaking) water around has eroded the ice from beneath. Updated Weekly Actually sounds like a solid theory, Dwight. Makes a lot of sense.
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Cecil and I had a discussion once, many moons ago, about how I believed that the ice on Bremer Pond to be the thickest around. This year, contrary to most, the ice is thinner on the pond than area lakes. Weird.
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Little snow left due to rain Thursday and Friday. That is now frozen solid. 12 inches of clear ice. D.O. dropping in a normal fashion given ice thickness and time of the year. Updated Weekly
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Heading for -15F Sunday night and not much warmer on Monday night; warm compared to somewhere.  Updated Weekly
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Heading for -15F Sunday night and not much warmer on Monday night; warm compared to somewhere. Where? Even my freezer is warmer than that. 
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Same temperature here Dwight.
It was 38F here yesterday. Down right gorgeous out.
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We were in the mid-40s yesterday. Payback is coming....
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Yes (payback time) and you know what they say about that. Way to cold for me.
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We have steady winds in the mid 40 mph with gusts in the low 50 mph area. Temps are dropping rapidly. Luckily Gail got the windows washed yesterday. 
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Same headed for Ohio as 52F today 50 plus winds tonight high 24F Sunday and Mondays low will be 4 F (RedEars hate these patterns with open water!)we need ice !!!
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Mid 60's today low 30's tomorrow
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I has been cold.... Updated Weekly
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This the time of the year I start to worry about the bottom D.O. number. It is less worrisome than it used to be because it has dropped into the fives in the past with no ill effects. The thing is that fish don't have to move very far up the water column if they become uncomfortable on the bottom. Updated Weekly
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It has dropped a good bit, but it appears it's still at a pretty solid level. Nice graph. How far back do you have this data?
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It is all here back to the beginning, April 2009.
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What a great set of data to have to track your pond's health. I knew it had been on here for awhile but didn't know if you had been running the project longer than that or not.
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My goal is to accumulate 5 years of data. My original goal was 1 year of data. 
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