Above: Satellite view of the Great Lakes on a recent clear day (December 22, 2019), showing less than 2% overall ice cover, about normal for this point in the winter, mainly in Green Bay and ...
The Great Lakes kicked off 2024 with the lowest amount of ice cover they’ve had on New Year’s Day in at least 50 years, reports the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel’s Caitlin Looby.
After an unusually mild winter, produced very little ice cover over the Great Lakes. In fact, this year set records regarding ice coverage on the lakes. This year’s average ice cover for all of ...
New research into under-ice conditions is challenging what limnologists thought they understood about lakes’ winter behavior.
Warming global temperatures due to climate change have caused lake ice to "reduce bearing strength, implying more dangerous conditions for transportation (limiting operational use of many winter roads ...
According to NOAA data, the Great Lakes ice coverage is up over 3%. This time last year, there was 85.4% coverage The entire Great Lakes, shared by Canada and the United States is at 88.8% ice ...
Fewer lakes are freezing over each winter compared with past years, posing environmental and economic consequences around the world ...
As global warming and climate change persist, the melting of ice in lakes poses severe and misunderstood threats to ...
Closer to home in Ohio, ice fishing and inter-island travel are important to maintaining the cultural identity and social ...
On a frigid morning in late fall, resort owner Mark Engle studied the mangled planks and dock posts scattered along an ice-glazed channel that feeds into Lake Huron. Les Cheneaux Landing Resort, tu… ...
In winter 2023-24, the Great Lakes’ ice cover was near record lows, peaking at just 16%. Researchers explain how diminishing ice could have consequences for fisheries, and how species are evolving.
In winter 2023-24, the Great Lakes’ ice cover was near record lows, peaking at just 16%. Researchers explain how diminishing ice could have consequences for fisheries, and how species are evolving.