Good Tuesday morning, this is Burton with your first ice shelf and ice report for this winter season recorded at 11:25 a.m on December the 23rd 2008. Starting now until next spring when the conditions improve and it is safe again to venture out for a surf on Lake Michigan here in the Racine area I will be giving two ice reports a week to let everyone know how the ice is doing and when its safe to surf again. A winter storm watch and advisory is in effect until Wednesday evening with still several inches of snow expected along with some mixed precipitation. The winds are out of the SSW at 13 mph with gusts to 21 mph with the outside air temperature at 20 degrees with light snow.   Winds will be in the moderate to strong range out of the south for today. Tonight look for a low around 26 degrees with a mix of snow and freezing rain and winds will still be pretty moderate out of the SSW. The sunrise this morning was at  7:20 a.m and the sun will set tonight at 4:22 p.m. As far as the ice shelf goes it does extend a few hundred yards out into the lake off of Racine beaches along with some dangerous ice bergs the size of a car and surfing off of Racine beaches is strongly not recommended. The next ice report will be on Sunday the 28th so until then have a great Christmas and it was another awsome year of surfing da lakes.  I will have some pictures of the current ice conditions off of Racine beaches for next Sundays ice update. Picture is from last weekends awsome surf on Lake Superior, picture was taken by Bob Tema.

 

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