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April 11 will be recorded as the date the ice completely melted on Fountain Lake in 2023, according to Mark Malepsy, annual watcher of the lake.

Malepsy, of Bill & Mark’s Barbershop, said the last ice melted at about 1 p.m. near the east entrance of Edgewater Park and in Edgewater Bay near the park bandshell.

He said this was a pretty typical ice-out date. Last year, the ice-out date was April 6.

The earliest the ice has ever melted was March 7 in 2000 and the latest was April 27, which happened in both 1951 and 2018. The ice has never lasted into May.

The recording of ice-out dates for Fountain Lake is the third oldest in the state, according to the State Climatology Office at the University of Minnesota. The longest-known recording of ice-out dates started in 1867 for Lake Osakis near Alexandria, but hasn’t been consistent. The recording of ice-out dates for Lake Minnetonka started in 1870 and has been consistent since 1887.

Fountain Lake ice-out dates
1912: April 8
1913: April 3
1914: April 1
1915: April 10
1916: April 12
1917: April 12
1918: March 27
1919: March 26
1920: March 27
1921: March 18
1922: April 3
1923: April 14
1924: April 13
1925: March 25
1926: April 12
1927: March 24
1928: April 15
1929: March 28
1930: March 16
1931: March 15
1932: April 6
1933: April 4
1934: April 3
1935: March 25
1936: April 14
1937: April 12
1938: March 25
1939: March 30
1940: April 14
1941: April 8
1942: March 27
1943: April 3
1944: April 10
1945: March 25
1946: March 24
1947: April 15
1948: March 31
1949: April 9
1950: April 18
1951: April 27
1952: April 18
1953: March 30
1954: April 6
1955: April 8
1956: April 14
1957: April 9
1958: April 5
1959: April 11
1960: April 12
1961: March 26
1962: April 21
1963: April 2
1964: April 10
1965: April 20
1966: March 17
1967: March 29
1968: March 27
1969: April 12
1970: April 12
1971: April 13
1972: April 16
1973: March 24
1974: April 11
1975: April 25
1976: March 26
1977: March 28
1978: April 5
1979: April 19
1980: April 12
1981: March 25
1982: April 14
1983: April 11
1984: April 16
1985: March 31
1986: April 1
1987: March 23
1988: April 3
1989: April 9
1990: March 28
1991: April 3
1992: April 5
1993: April 15
1994: April 3
1995: March 27
1996: April 15
1997: April 6
1998: March 30
1999: March 29
2000: March 7
2001: April 12
2002: April 9
2003: April 2
2004: March 28
2005: April 4
2006: April 5
2007: March 27
2008: April 16
2009: April 3
2010: March 31
2011: April 8
2012: March 17
2013: April 23
2014: April 13
2015: March 25
2016: March 15
2017: March 29
2018: April 27
2019: April 8
2020: April 1
2021: March 24
2022: April 6
2023: April 11