Got ice?
The Great Lakes certainly do, with ice coverage at its highest percentage in 20 years, according to scientists from the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Mich.
"Persistent cold temperatures in the Midwest this winter have almost completely frozen over many of the Great Lakes," the lab noted in a release last week. Many cities around the Great Lakes are enduring one of their top-five coldest winters on record, the National Weather Service reports.
As of Sunday, 90.5% of the Great Lakes were ice-covered, which is the third-highest level since records began, according to Anne Clites, a scientist with the laboratory. In second place is 1994, at 90.7%.
The record of almost 95% was set in February 1979. "It certainly seems like we have a chance to set the record," Clites said in an e-mail Monday, noting that it will depend on the weather over the next two weeks.
The Great Lakes certainly do, with ice coverage at its highest percentage in 20 years, according to scientists from the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Mich.
"Persistent cold temperatures in the Midwest this winter have almost completely frozen over many of the Great Lakes," the lab noted in a release last week. Many cities around the Great Lakes are enduring one of their top-five coldest winters on record, the National Weather Service reports.
As of Sunday, 90.5% of the Great Lakes were ice-covered, which is the third-highest level since records began, according to Anne Clites, a scientist with the laboratory. In second place is 1994, at 90.7%.
The record of almost 95% was set in February 1979. "It certainly seems like we have a chance to set the record," Clites said in an e-mail Monday, noting that it will depend on the weather over the next two weeks.
