The long deep freeze across the Upper Midwest this winter
has left a whopping 80 percent of the Great Lakes covered in ice.
Data from the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory,
shows that more than half of Lake Michigan (54 percent) is on ice.
Neither number is a record, but those percentages are much
higher than normal for the winter. Among the other Great Lakes, Lake Erie is
nearly a full skating rink (94 percent), followed by Superior (93 percent);
Huron (89 percent) and Ontario (38 percent).
The record Great Lakes ice-covering is 94 percent, set in
the legendary winter of 1979.
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| Satellite image 2/4/14 |
