The ice coverage in Lake Erie has rapidly expanded to 80% this week. February and March are peak maximum ice coverage periods ...

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 next few weeks look quite a bit milder than last week, but still near normal temperatures. The Great Lakes ice cover will continue to grow, but probably at a much slower pace. It will take a ...

This is a bit of a departure from some of GLOS's past work — a website called Seagull that aggregates sensor-based, real-time ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership with Grist and Interlochen Public Radio in Northern Michigan. The chaos surrounding the future of scientific research in the Trump ...

Sustained cold caused rapid icing on the Great Lakes with the highest total ice cover reported since the historic 56% ice maximum in February 2022. This winter, ice cover peaked at around 25% ...

"Tourism has been crazy," said Rick Caldwell ... but in the right conditions it forms in Michigan's Great Lakes. The National Park Service says blue ice doesn't contain many air bubbles.

After nearly a week of freezing temperatures — below zero on several days — the Great Lakes are seeing significant ice creation, with Lake Erie nearly completely frozen over. Lake Erie was ...

There’s a hole in what we know about ice on the Great Lakes. While satellites can see where the ice is, it can be difficult to measure its thickness. Now, a new effort to fill in that gap is ...