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Iowa Great Lakes Are Ice Free

November 22, 2014

(Arnolds Park)– Get the boat ready–the ice has officially gone out of the Iowa Great Lakes.

Kirk Ewen of Arnolds Park keeps track of the official freeze-thaw dates of the lakes. He tells KUOO news the ice went out of East Lake Okoboji Monday (March 26th) and West Lake was ice-free Wednesday (March 28th).

That compares to last year when the ice went out of East Lake Okoboji April 4th and West Lake April 5th.