The Great Lakes are currently at 33.19% ice coverage, the highest point so far in 2025. This year's ice coverage is significantly higher than the past two years, with Lake Erie reaching 92.9% ...

The other Great Lakes have varying degrees of ice coverage, with Lake Superior having the least at 8%. The highest recorded ice coverage for all the Great Lakes was 94.7% in 1979. After nearly a ...

After reaching a peak of more than 50% coverage in February, Great Lakes ice held on into May this year. Here's where.

Great Lakes ice coverage reached an historic low in 2024 ... from deepest to shallowest from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Lake Superior: 483 feet in average depth, maximum depth ...

Lakes Superior and Michigan hit their peak ice cover with about 45% and 33%, respectively. Lake Erie was almost completely iced over for numerous days in February, reaching max ice cover of about ...

Lake Superior at 15.1% and Lake Ontario at nearly 10%. Lake Erie is the shallowest of the Great Lakes and swings in air temperature can influence ice coverage “more rapidly than other lakes ...

Lake Huron has less ice than Lake Erie but is ahead of Lakes Michigan and Superior for coverage. The Great Lakes are 35.15% covered in ice, the highest coverage so far in 2025 with Lake Erie in ...

Maximum ice coverage occurs from mid-February to the end of February for the lower Great Lakes and lakes in the Lower Peninsula. For lakes occupying the Upper Peninsula, and Lake Superior ...

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 ...

with Lake Erie reaching 92.9% coverage at one point. Lake Michigan has slightly more ice than Lake Superior, but both are behind Lakes Erie and Huron for coverage. The Great Lakes are 35.15% ...