Great Lakes ice cover at record low for this time of winter
El Niño, and a few other ocean-atmospheric weather factors, have made this an unusually low ice and snow winter.
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El Niño, and a few other ocean-atmospheric weather factors, have made this an unusually low ice and snow winter.
(WJET/WFXP)– A new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and their Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) says the Great Lakes have reached a historic low in ice coverage with Lake Erie being less than one percent covered. A recent report by researchers on the NOAA’s GLERL team indicated ice coverage levels […]
Last year was a mild winter and the lake ice coverage only reached 40.2% at its highest.
A record warm December led to a slow start to Lake Michigan ice coverage, but thanks to the recent cold snap, ice coverage has increased.
"These are massive bodies of water, very deep, very large."