Polar Bear Plunge
Making a chilly splash to ring in 2025
It wasn’t Arctic cold, but try telling that to the scores of New Year’s Day revelers who braved temperatures in the 20s and a biting wind to kick off 2025 last week with the traditional polar bear plunge in Lake Michigan in the shadow of the We Energies power plant on Port Washington’s south beach. The good news is, with the lake temperature hovering around 38 degrees, the water was warmer than the air. Photos by Sam Arendt
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