Lake Pepin Did Open In March

During the last couple of days in March, I had thought I heard a report on the news that Lake Pepin was open for shipping but was too lazy to play it back to verify that is what I heard. Because the DNR Climatology website didn't record it by April 1st I thought maybe I was wrong about what I thought I had heard. Turns out they were just slow about relaying the info. It opened on the 31st. 

Turns out they were way behind what was going on. The first lake went off on March 22, and a bunch went off on the 23 and 24th.