dave in el dorado ca – Ice generally gets to 15 or 16 inches. Some years it has been over 20 inches and some years only 12" or so.
Once the day temps are in the 40s and the night temperatures don't dip below freezing the ice slowly becomes water logged and doesn’t take long to disappear.
We have been ice free as early as the end of February; though it is usually late March and into April. A lot of wind speeds up the process considerably.
