Tag: Lake Erie
Ice caves forming on the Great Lakes, bringing beauty and danger
Ice caves are forming along the lakeshore as Michigan experiences its coldest and snowiest winter in a few years. And while the caves attract attention, they can also be dangerous, especially as temperatures start to warm up.
Complete freeze of Great Lake now ‘unlikely’ following strong winds that ‘shoved’ ice southward
Although Lake Erie’s surface had been nearing a complete freeze — a state it has not reached in 30 years — the chances of it reaching 100 percent have now […]
Ice grips Great Lakes, with Erie nearly fully covered
About 95% percent of Lake Erie is covered in ice, and even half of Lake Superior is too. Bitter cold temperatures have spurred major ice coverage across the Great Lakes, but warmer weather is coming….
Stalled plan revived to bring electricity under Lake Erie from Canada
A proposal to build an underwater line to transmit electricity from Canada to Erie County is once again seeking government approvals. Read the full story by the Erie-Times News.
Lake Erie is nearly frozen over: Could it hit a rare full freeze?
Data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory show Lake Erie’s ice coverage surged from under 2% on January 14 to nearly 85% by January […]