This winter, ice cover in the Great Lakes Basin has hovered at unusually low levels. The Great Lakes have been unusually ice-free so far this winter. In fact, as of February 14, 2023, ice covered only 6.6 percent of the five freshwater lakes. This is significantly less than the 35-40 percent ice
-20 satellite acquired this image on February 13, ice cover on the lakes was 7 percent. This is the lowest ice cover measured on this date of any year since 1973, when satellite-based record-keeping began. What little ice is present skirts the coastlines of the lakes. A strip of ice can be seen crossing Lake Huron’s Saginaw Bay. In Lake Erie, sediment swirls kicked up by storms give the water aAir temperatures are the main factor affecting ice cover on the Great Lakes. According to the U.S.
Ice cover on the lakes varies from year to year. But an analysis led by Jia Wang, an ice climatologist at NOAA’s GLERL, shows a downward trend spanning 44 years. During the winter period, which runs from December 1 to April 30,Anthropogenic warming has played a role in this decades-long decline.
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