Extremely warm temps on St. Patrick's Day

In the spirit of St. Patrick's Day I added a touch of
green to a picture of yesterday's sunrise

It was nearly 40 degrees above the average high temperature yesterday. The day topped off at 80 degrees.  This is the earliest time on record that we have reached 80 degrees in the Twin Cities.  Trees are starting to bud out, robins abound and the ice is mostly gone from Bassett Creek Pond. I spotted a muskrat busily swimming around in the pond.

Muskrat

Angular ice chunk floating in water