The ice coverage in Lake Erie has rapidly expanded to 80% this week. February and March are peak maximum ice coverage periods for the Great Lakes.
The dip of Arctic air into the Midwest expanded ice coverage across all 5 Great Lakes, some seeing greater increases than ...
As climate change continues to alter the world around us, researchers have now taken a deep dive into the Great Lakes, uncovering that the lakes are experiencing a loss of 14 winter days per decade.
Lake effect snow is dependent on the Great Lakes water temperature and how much of the lake is frozen. But what does the ...
Ice growth on the Great Lakes requires long spells of subfreezing temperatures like we’ve seen of late. The shallower lakes—Erie and Huron—are the first to build significant surface ice, with the ...