Enjoy outdoor ice skating while you still can. Just a few years left, I hear.
In my youth of living in WNY lake Erie would completely freeze over every year.
In the winter of 1976/77 it froze over in mid December. Eventually leading to lots of snow accumulation on the ice. When the winds picked up to 75 mph in mid January it led to the Blizzard of 77. Three feet of snow and high winds. No school for a week.