According to the measurements made by the Ely center, in many places the ice can support pedestrians, but snowmobiles cannot yet move on ice.
The thickness of the ice has increased from three to six centimeters in a few weeks. The total thickness of the ice cover varies between 24 and 44 centimeters.
Sections of load-bearing steel ice and more clumsy hard ice toss between the lakes. For example, in Peruvedi most of the ice formed is slush formed from snow, while in Korpijärvi most of the new ice formed is steel ice.
There is now enough ice everywhere at the Ely center’s measurement sites to support the weight of a pedestrian, but not a snowmobile.
Those moving on ice should remember that there can be considerable differences in ice thickness even within a radius of a few meters.