With continuing above-freezing temperatures across the region, Great Lakes ice coverage has dropped to less than 10% since reaching a high over more than 50% in February. Great Lakes ice coverage ...

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 ...

With southern Michigan engulfed in another winter storm, the Great Lakes have crossed the halfway point in ice concentration. Combined, they are 54.36% covered in ice as of Thursday, according to ...

Ice on the Great Lakes is steadily retreating under warm spring temperatures, according to NOAA reports. Great Lakes ice coverage stands at 17.32%, with Lake Erie at 32.93% coverage. The last time ...

While fishermen in the spring, summer and fall might be deterred by a rainy, windy, chilly day, ice fishermen will go out in anything, said John Bacarella, owner of Sportsmen's Direct, a Harrison ...

According to NOAA data, the Great Lakes ice coverage is up over 3%. This time last year, there was 85.4% coverage. The record for ice coverage occurred in 1979 with 95% of the lakes frozen ...

relatively ice-free far later into the winter season, and you still have cold air outbreaks,” says Rood. Modeling by the Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments (GLISA) program suggests ...

The phenomenon is called pancake ice, and it looks just like that. With several days of temperatures well below freezing, and in many instances, below the zero degree mark, bodies of water are ...

All of the Great Lakes were below the 2023-2024 levels this winter due to the weather conditions. Factors including ice coverage and a mix of below normal and normal streamflow contributed to the ...

The U.S. Coast Guard in Michigan and Wisconsin on Monday rescued 25 people stranded on ice floes in the Great Lakes amid unsafe ... to the first ice floe off Sherwood Point, Wisconsin, where ...