Posted on 05/26/2014 5:17:52 PM PDT by cripplecreek
MARQUETTE, MI -- Remember how bad the winter was? The polar vortex, inches upon inches of snow.
While the season has passed for most of us and Memorial Day weekend is underway, there are reminders in Michigan's Upper Peninsula of the historically cold and snowy winter.
There's still ice on Lake Superior.
As MLive's John "Gonzo" Gonzalez and I traveled the state looking for Michigan’s Best Taco, we noticed there is still ice cover on Lake Superior.
We were just sweating earlier this week in Kalamazoo, not because of the hot sauce but the temperatures. We were surprised there is still ice on the lakes with the temperatures in the mid 50s. As we drove east along highway US-41 and M-28, there as large floating chunks of ice, and light cover sometimes as far as we could see.
Is this common and how much longer will it last?
We called MLive meteorologist Mark Torregrossa while driving from Marquette to Sault Ste. Marie. As of May 15, 2014 Lake Superior is reportedly 14.48 percent covered in ice, more than any time in the past 40 years. Earlier this week, the lake still had 1.3 percent ice cover.
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Torregrossa said ice on the Great Lakes stops getting measured at the end of May. In 1996, there was 0.1 percent ice cover on the Great Lakes.
"We could still have that small percentage of ice June 1," Torregrossa said, "or could be gone this week."
With temperatures continuing to rise, he thinks the ice may be gone this week.
We snapped photos of the last of the ice from this historic winter in Michigan and the Great Lakes. Take a look and say a fond goodbye to the last remainders of this historically cruel winter.
Global warming!
There can’t be! I was just at the NOAA site and they just posted an article about global warming and “averages.”
Wish I was up north. I dread the summer.
>>I am kind of curious as to what possessed these guys to go to the upper peninsula in search of Michigan’s best taco.<<
That’s like going to Tijuana for pasties.
He's union...
That's to save Al Gore's drowning Polar Bears.
Without global warming, the great lakes would not exist!
;-)
Wow, you can have your own ice bag!
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