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 ...

When Michigan's many lakes and rivers form ice, it can be hard to stay away. Some ice isn't worth stepping onto, experts say.

A January 2025 cold wave plunged Chicago into subzero temperatures, initially without snow. By late January, snowfall ...

About 13,000 years ago the melting glaciers that covered Minnesota and Canada created a vast lake, bigger than all the Great ...

If temperatures are too moderate for too long, the newly formed ice will melt and ice coverage will decrease. Peak ice coverage for the Great Lakes happens in late February/early March.

Tuesday afternoon, the Coast Guard, along with Catawba Island first responders ... Sustained cold caused rapid icing on the Great Lakes with the highest total ice cover reported since the historic ...

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

The lake was a central route in the vast network of trade between tribes in the Great Lakes region ... to remain docked in ports until the ice melted in the spring. During the 19th and early ...

There’s a hole in what we know about ice on the Great Lakes. While satellites can see ... the data won’t be released to the public at first, instead informing existing ice modeling efforts ...