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Originally Posted by rockfan4
No, he's right.
I live about 2 hours south of CP. We've had events on our lake for 40, maybe 50 years. In the late 80s - early 90s, we had IIRA ice races. Over two feet of ice on the lake. For the last 10 years or so it has been hit or miss. Last year, I think we got 3 or 4 rallycross events in. We don't need 2 feet for that. This year, nothing. No good ice. That may change next year, we might get enough ice to do a few events, but we'll never see 2 plus feet of ice again.
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yup.
eventually it will become such short season, if it happens at all, that we'll have to stop running them locally. they will have to be up north of duluth pretty soon to even hold them. the pictures i took to start the thread are north of duluth.
keep in mind, this is raceable ice, not ice coverage. basically days of 16+ inches of ice on one lake. we loose .6 days of raceable ice per year. the lake the chart is for measured 9-12 last weekend, and the 10 day for cast doesn't have a below 32 high. there is a good chance that 2024 is 0 days of raceable ice on that lake.
FYI, if we do get zero days of ice, the average ice loss per year jumps to 1.5 days.
so, its not only happening, its getting worse.