Lake Erie Covered in Ice: Nearly 94 percent of lake is frozen, researchers say

US News ^ | Feb 18, 15 | AP

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Excerpt:

The latest cold snap has almost all of Lake Erie covered by ice.

The Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory says ice has formed across close to 94 percent of the lake. That's the highest percentage out of all of the Great Lakes.

Just two years ago at this time of the year, only about half of the lake had ice cover.

The Northeast Ohio Media Group in Cleveland reports that the lake reached 100 percent ice coverage only three times since records have been kept.

The most recent time was in 1996.

[xzins]

Cold, cold, cold.

Easy to do an AGW riff, but better to warn about frostbite tonight.

[fatnotlazy]

Gotta love global warming.

[Steely Tom]

The Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory says ice has formed across close to 94 percent of the lake.

Another horrifying consequence of man-made global warming.

[Jim Robinson]

Global warming.

[stephenjohnbanker]

There was a MMGW guy around here in Lake Erie somewhere. Now he’s gone. Nothing here but a statue......

[Timber Rattler]

Caused by global warming, no doubt.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[Vigilanteman]

Doesn’t the St. Lawrence Seaway close down about the end of November every year for precisely this reason? And reopen sometime in March?

[nascarnation]

The good part is it shuts off the ever present lake effect snow! At least for a while.

[SandRat]

HEY! AL BORE! Where’s the GLBAL WARMING?

[skinkinthegrass]

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THAT's cold.

[rightwingcrazy]

“Nearly 94 percent of lake is frozen”

I hope they mean 94% of the *surface* is frozen. Otherwise, where would all the fish go?

[353FMG]

That’s very eerie.

[alloysteel]

There was a time, perhaps sometime in the 19th Century, when people could simply WALK from Canada to the US - the lake was 100% frozen over, and was nearly June before some of the ports were accessible.

[TADSLOS]

Global Warming CLIMATE CHANGE!

[xzins]

Hope they were breaded for frying first.

Love me some walleye

[SpinnerWebb]

I’ve always heard that 90% of the fish are in 10% of the lake at any one time, anyway...

[SandRat]

well, it is lake Erie after all.