As of Feb. 24, Lake Erie is 86% to 87% frozen over, according to the National Weather Service office in Cleveland which handles the Erie forecast. Earlier in February, Lake Erie was 95% frozen over.

The official start of spring is less than a month away, but Lake Erie is already starting to thaw. This thaw comes after the ice coverage reached its peak in mid-February. As of Feb. 24, Lake Erie ...

Last year, Lake Erie was practically ice free until the middle of January with coverage peaking for the season at just under 36% on Jan. 22. The last time ice coverage on the lake exceeded 90% was ...

Lake Huron had 98.2% ice cover in 1996. Lake Erie froze over completely in 1978, 1979 and 1996. Lake Ontario had 86.2% ice coverage in 1979. Contact Sarah Moore @ [email protected].

The ice cover percentage peaked on February 20 for Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. The ice peaked on February 21 for Lakes Superior, Michigan and Huron. Lake Superior on March 10, 2025 NOAA.

The National Weather Service in Cleveland is warning everybody to stay off the ice on Lake Erie as it has been weakened by multiple thaw/freeze cycles and winds. Skip Navigation.

Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) - Every year, Lake Erie Ice Boom is removed by April 1st, but sometimes, things don't always go according to plan. Senior Director of Community Affairs for the New York Power ...

A 1912 article in the Erie Times-News reported the first walk across a frozen Lake Erie. But the first crossing actually seems to have been a century earlier. Daniel Dobbins and Jesse Elliott, key ...

The last time Lake Erie experienced 95% ice coverage was in 2019. Since the lake hasn't had a significant freeze in several years, the Alewife population soared, according to a DEC survey.

When nature does revert to age-old times of cold weather in winter, like this year, the ice thickness on inland lakes and Lake Erie, too, has been solid and thick. On Lake Erie, though, ice anglers ...