as well as the size and depth of each lake, and even its shape and orientation. Below is a graph that shows the annual average ice cover on the Great Lakes from 1973 through 2019. In any given ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers predicts that the water levels in the five Great Lakes will drop until April. How low are ...

The Great Lakes saw more than 50% ice coverage in February. As temperatures warm up, that percentage is falling quickly. Here ...

DULUTH ‐ The Western Reserve, a mammoth and nearly new steam freighter, was en route to Two Harbors in August 1892 when it split in half during a storm and quickly sank to the depths of Lake Superior, ...

The shipwreck, broken in two, was discovered by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society using sonar technology. A historic all-steel ship that broke records as it cruised the Great Lakes but ...

The 2024-2025 Great Lakes ice season has seen near-normal ice cover, a change from recent years with record lows. Ice cover peaked in February at just over 50% due to a polar vortex. Climate ...

Here are the other average depths for the Great Lakes, from deepest to shallowest from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Lake Superior: 483 feet in average depth, maximum depth at 1,332 feet.

Historically, Lake Erie freezes and warms the quickest due to its shallow depth, the shallowest among the Great Lakes. The average depth of Lake Erie is about 62 feet 210 feet, maximum — with ...