So much so that Lake Erie reached its winter peak for this season for ice coverage. Roughly 95 per cent of the lake was covered in ice on Feb. 18, according to satellite data released by the ...

Lake Erie is the shallowest of the Great Lakes and swings in air temperature can influence ice coverage “more rapidly than other lakes,” said James Kessler, physical scientist with the Great ...

The average annual ice cover over the Great Lakes region responds very closely to seasonal changes in annual temperature. However, each lake exhibits its own individual response and timescale ...

Our winter ice fishing season has ended in a flash, with no fatalities for those anglers stranded on Lake Erie last week.