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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 ...
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.
This MODIS satellite image from Feb. 12, 2023, shows below-average ice cover for this time of year on the Great Lakes. Credit: NOAA GLERL / NOAA Great Lakes CoastWatch Node.
Lake-effect snow is produced as cold winds blow clouds over warm waters. Some key elements are required to form lake-effect precipitation and which determine its characteristics: instability, fetch, wind shear, upstream moisture, upwind lakes, synoptic (large)-scale forcing, orography/topography, and snow or ice cover.
The amount of ice on the Great Lakes — Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario — affects shipping to ports in the Midwest and the Rust Belt. People skate on top of Poplar River. (Courtesy ...
Waves of lake-effect snow will be spread across the Great Lakes and interior Northeast through at least midweek, burying some towns in feet of fresh snow, AccuWeather experts say. A true round of ...
The freighter has to travel the rest of Lake Erie and then go up the Detroit and St. Clair rivers to Sarnia, Ontario, where it will spend the rest of the winter, Rivera told The Associated Press on Sunday. “There is ice through other portions of the lake and the rivers, but we have another cutter that will take it through there,” he said.
The Great Lakes — known for ice fishing and frozen winter waves — rang in the New Year almost naked. Ice covered less than 0.4% of the Great Lakes on New Year's Day, according to the Great ...