The Great Lakes are 35.15% covered in ice, the highest coverage so far in 2025 with Lake Erie in the lead, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration said. Altogether, the Great Lakes are seeing ...

CLEVELAND — It's been a real winter here in Northeast Ohio, hasn't it? Cold air. Proper bouts of snow. And Lake Erie is mostly iced over. As of Feb. 18, 2025 Lake Erie is 94.78% iced over (scroll down ...

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 Lakes ...

As winters warm — and the average winter temperature is trending warmer since 1970 per Climate Central — due to climate ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Lake Erie, the shallowest of the five Great Lakes, last froze over in 1996. With ice covering more than 95% of the lake on Thursday, and continued winter weather in the forecast, could ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — The cold January has continued into February allowing Lake Erie's ice coverage to continue to expand. The lake now has 91 percent ice coverage. That is the highest amount of ice ...

As southwestern Ontario continues to thaw with milder temperatures, it's hard to believe just last week we were at the tail end of a lengthy cold snap. So much so that Lake Erie reached its winter ...

Fishing on the winter Lake Erie ice with his son, Robert Kubiak feels it is important to introduce kids to fishing at a young age. Photo courtesy of Robert Kubiak Fishing on the eastern basin Lake ...