Northwind Iceboats Weather Reporting

[miked]

Hi, I'm webmaster over at northwindiceboats.com and I'm trying to come up with a
section of our site in which the most popular locations for iceboating have
weather reports specific to the iceboating community. What I would like from
you guys is your feedback on

1) Which locations (Preferably By Zip Code) are most important?

2) The data I have to work with is hourly temperature, wind speed, and pressure
so what would constitute good iceboating weather given that info? I'm currently
thinking of using 3 days of all below 0c temps, high current wind speed and low
current pressure. If you suggest something different, please let me know.

Thanks.

www.northwindiceboats.com

[DN5135]

I'd like to see Chautauqua Lake, NY posted. 14712 Bemus Point is mid lake.

Thanks, Jeff

[Geoff Sobering]

Are you thinking sites in just the East/North-East or nationwide?

[Bob Gray]

There"s a lot of sailing in the Traverse City, MI area,the  zip code is 49684.

[miked]

Are you thinking sites in just the East/North-East or nationwide?

Nationwide, perhaps even internationally

www.northwindiceboats.com

[RANDY ROGOSKI]

Muskegon, Michigan 49441

[Bob Rast DN1313]

You might try a mash up using Google API which could possibly put various venues on the map as people send reports??
There are several free apis or php scripts out I saw one been used for ski conditions. Also
some what trending but as season starts could  set up a Twitter account and people could tweet ice reports with link to map? could keep account limited to iceboaters

[miked]

Any more suggestions for what constitutes a "good" day and location for iceboating given a full temperature, wind and pressure history and forecast?  That would be really helpful.  Is 3 days of subzero temps usually enough to freeze the ground real good?