"There is nothing between the Northland and the North Pole but a barbed wire fence" someone once explained to me. No mountain ranges, no warming oceans to get in the way. We get fresh arctic air, not the used cold fronts that plague so much of America...
Do you remember when the City Of Superior tried to boost tourism by making a wall of ice at Barker's Island? Looks like someone in Superior might be trying it themselves.
Ice conditions across Minnesota Lakes hasn't been ideal this winter. A plow truck operating on a Northern Minnesota lake recently broke through the ice.