NAH! THE SUN'S NOT MELTING THE ICE JUST YET

It's Mono Monday and the theme is SUN.  It's late in the day as you can tell from the sun's position but it isn't melting all this ice.  It's too cold out and this shot is on the largest inland lake in Wisconsin...Lake Winnebago.
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This lake is 60 miles (96km) long and 20 miles (32km) wide but the deepest part of the lake is only 20 feet (6 meters) deep.  It only takes a little bit of wind to whip up some pretty big waves on this widening in the Fox River.
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Ice forms first along the edges of the lake (loch) and any big waves just break it into smaller ice chunks that get pushed toward the shore....as you see here. In another 2 months, the ice will be 3 feet (.9meters) thick and the wind will not break it into ice chunks.
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However, the ice will fracture into large plates leaving gaping openings in the ice from one ice floe to another.  This can be hazardous for ice fishermen stranded out there with open water between them and the land.  Rescues happen every winter.
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Yup....the sun is there but the angle of incidence of its rays is insufficient to produce a lot of heat.....that will happen when the northern hemisphere gets exposed to more direct sun rays.  That process begins with the Winter Solstice on or about the 21st of December.
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