LAKE CITY, Minn. – The spring thaw is on. The latest Corps of Army Engineers’ probes into the Lake Pepin found water, not ice, at 22 inches. In places the ice was thinner. A week earlier the ice was as thick as 27 inches. Navigation typically opens sometime in mid-March at 12 inches..
March 16: Thickest ice 22 inches.
March 9: 27 inches
March 2: 24 inches.
February 23: 23 inches.
February 16: 23 inches.