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Legend (wind-chill) April 10, 2005: The last of the last for the season in Ontario. It was a great winter season. See you next year.

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Report Date (windcast) Location(click for details/map) Snow/Ice Surface (colour-code) Snow/Ice Depth (cm) Edging (1-5, 1=excellent)/ Sun, Moon Rise-Set Snowmobile Watch

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Shoreline
Apr 10, 2004 Ice no longer safe, Ontario closed for the season
  Puslinch Lake Fun Fly
Mar 25, 2005 Sun Rise: 6:12am Sun Set: 6:35pm   Full Moon: 3:59pm Moon Rise: 6:37pm Moon Set: 6:16am  
Feb 23, 2005 Sun Rise: 7:04am Sun Set: 5:58pm   Full Moon: 11:54pm Moon Rise: 5:30pm Moon Set: 7:12am  
Feb 5-6, 2005

Barrie Winterfest & The Festival of Ice
Jan 25, 2005 Sun Rise: 7:41am Sun Set: 5:19pm   Full Moon: 5:33am Moon Rise: 5:29pm Moon Set: 8:17am  
Jan 22/23 2005 Lake Simcoe Wind Sports Festival
Jan 1, 2005 Jackson's Point No Snow/Black Smooth Ice 0cm/5-13cm 4 none off-shore minor slush

Only sailable with on or off-shore winds (north or south) as  your longest runs should be along shore
Walter Drive (Cook's Bay) No snow, refrozen slush from warm temps. 0cm/10cm 4 none none visible recent warming as made some soft spots
Willow Beach closed 0cm/0cm

There's this huge long, and when I say huge it kind of runs all the way along in the little bay where Willow Beach is, there is a built up pressure crack. Not sure how smooth, but this could be the beginning of a radical terrain park once things cool and fill in a bit. North of this is open water.
Dec 26, 2004 Sun Rise: 7:49am Sun Set: 4:47pm   Full Moon: 10:07am Moon Rise: 4:33pm Moon Set: 8:16am  
Dec 18, 2004 Walter Drive (Cook's Bay) about 95% soft snow covered/Off the access point; smooth. North from the access point to the open water is rough refrozen ice 3cm/10cm 3 none towards the middle of the bay take some care as the season just started and some of the small cracks haven't filled in completely
Dec 17, 2004 Walter Drive (Cook's Bay) tba tba tba tba tba tba
Nov 13/14 2004 Warren Miller's 55th year in film - "IMPACT" (Toronto screening dates)
Previous seasons Started Ended
2003-2004 December 6, 2003 April 3, 2004
2002-2003 December 1, 2002 April 12, 2003
2001-2002 December 26, 2001 March 30, 2002
2000-2001 November 25, 2000 April 11, 2001
1999-2000 December 19, 1999 March 20, 2000
1998-1999   March 30, 1999
As I get more cam and weather feeds, I'll add them to this page. Be sure to check out iWindsurf.com
or current wind forecasts or this for Canadian winds.

The following table of ice thickness versus ice strength, provided by the National Research Council of Canada and developed by E.R. Pounder, gives you the safe load for a given ice thickness of fresh lake and river ice

SAFE LOAD OPERATION FRESH ICE
One person at rest 8 cm
0.4 ton moving slowly 10 cm
2 ton vehicle moving slowly 25 cm *
10 ton tracked vehicle moving slowly 43 cm
13 ton aircraft parked 61 cm
* estimated numbers, not provided in original table (source)

Source E.R. Pounder (ec)

Great Lakes Surface Environmental Analysis (GLSEA)
Lake Simcoe is the bottom most red dot.Canadian Ice Service Bulletin for Great Lakes (Dec-April)
 
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