A photo posted (click here) by our friends at Michigan's Interlochen Public Radio is so cool we just had to know more about it and about what's going on with the Great Lakes during this extra-frigid winter.
As you'll see, the satellite image from the shows clouds and snow blowing across the now partially ice-covered Lake Michigan....Grand Traverse Bay Freezes, Lake Michigan Half Frozen (click here)
[CLARIFICATION: Mark Gill told IPR Grand Traverse Bay was iced
over on Wednesday morning. Open water may be seen on the bay since as ice cover on the lake rises and falls, sometimes dramatically.]
Grand Traverse Bay is now mostly frozen along with almost half of Lake Michigan. Mark Gill at the U.S. Coast Guard says ice reaches from Traverse City to the Straits of Mackinac.
The bay used to freeze every eight or nine years out of 10 until the 1990s when it dropped off sharply. Grand Traverse Bay has not frozen completely since 2009.
Most of Lake Michigan’s main basin is open water still and from the Leelanau Peninsula to Indiana ice stretches out from the shore into the lake three to five miles....
Lake Huron is the one that will freeze over first because it is the shallowest of the lakes. There is a theory which is mostly true. If the lakes freeze over the elevation of the water increases because the surface water expands as it freezes.
Sean Lennox
Jan 30th, 2014
One of the coldest winters (click here) ever recorded has left Lake Erie almost totally frozen, with experts reporting that Erie now has 96 percent of its surface covered with ice. Erie has sustained the most damage from consistently sub-zero temperatures as well as massive amounts of lake-effect snow and is the most frozen of the five Great Lakes....
Grand Traverse Bay is now mostly frozen along with almost half of Lake Michigan. Mark Gill at the U.S. Coast Guard says ice reaches from Traverse City to the Straits of Mackinac.
The bay used to freeze every eight or nine years out of 10 until the 1990s when it dropped off sharply. Grand Traverse Bay has not frozen completely since 2009.
Most of Lake Michigan’s main basin is open water still and from the Leelanau Peninsula to Indiana ice stretches out from the shore into the lake three to five miles....
Lake Huron is the one that will freeze over first because it is the shallowest of the lakes. There is a theory which is mostly true. If the lakes freeze over the elevation of the water increases because the surface water expands as it freezes.
Jan 30th, 2014
One of the coldest winters (click here) ever recorded has left Lake Erie almost totally frozen, with experts reporting that Erie now has 96 percent of its surface covered with ice. Erie has sustained the most damage from consistently sub-zero temperatures as well as massive amounts of lake-effect snow and is the most frozen of the five Great Lakes....
