Photo.com/Samuli Siltanen By Jim Andrews, Senior Meteorologist
Mar 20, 2012; 1:00 PM ET
Early, rapid thaw of winter ice on a northern Ontario lake has been called an "emergency situation," as workers race against time to bring in ice-fishing shacks.Ice covering Mille Lacs Lake has been thawing quickly amid soaring temperatures, forcing volunteer workers to bring in the shacks before the ice becomes totally unsafe, a story on the CBC News website said on Monday.
Since last Thursday, workers having been using trucks with tracks to pull in the shacks, sometimes putting in 20-hour days.
A spokesman involved in the work said that up to half a meter (nearly 20 inches) of water was ponded on the ice in places. "The ice is really porous and it's not safe for anything," the man was quoted as saying.
Popular with ice fishermen, the northwest Ontario lake has been caught up in the same freak summerlike warmth that has smashed temperature records on both sides of the Canada/U.S. border.
At nearby Upsala, Ontario, three straight days, Saturday through Monday, had high temperatures of 23 to 24 degrees C (73 to 75 degrees F), meteorological data accessed by AccuWeather.com showed.
The normal July high temperature in Upsala is about 23 degrees C, whereas that of the latest winter is about freezing.
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