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The recent arctic blast has pushed ice cover on the Great Lakes to levels not seen since 2022. Lake Erie in particular has become mostly ice covered in quick order. As of January 23, ice cover has ...
Smaller inlets and locations like the Saginaw Bay, Lake St. Clair and far western portions of Lake Erie are currently seeing the highest percentages of ice coverage. "Typically, lake-effect snow ...
Ice was on the decline across the Great Lakes as a whole from Feb. 5 to Feb. 13 due to above-average warmth. Within a couple of weeks of the cold moving out of the area, ice coverage dropped to ...
Overall, the Great Lakes have been losing ice to the tune of about 5% every decade.
The Manitoulin, a 663-foot (202-meter) Canadian vessel with 17 people on board, got stuck in the ice on Lake Erie on Wednesday after it dropped off a load of wheat in Buffalo, New York, and was heading back to Canada, the Coast Guard said. It was freed Saturday. The ship wasn't damaged, and its crew is safe, officials said.
Lake Erie is currently just above 5% on the ice cover percentage. The historical average for Lake Erie during February is around 50%.
At times, the ice sheet's southern margin included the present-day sites of coastal towns of the Northeastern United States, and cities such as Boston and New York City and Great Lakes coastal cities and towns as far south as Chicago and St. Louis, Missouri, and then followed the present course of the Missouri River up to the northern slopes of ...
Lake Ontario traditionally sees less ice cover than the other Great Lakes, with the average peak for Lake Ontario at about 20%. Lake Erie, by comparison, has a historical average around 70% at peak.