After a paltry year of ice coverage in 2024, this winter's freezing temperatures are having an impact across the Great Lakes.

Altogether, the Great Lakes are seeing healthier ice coverage this year. Here's what to know about their current conditions.

Weather forecasters on Saturday warned of a "coast-to-coast winter storm" overtaking the nation — with heavy snow in the Great Lakes, including Michigan's UP and along the Lake Huron shore.

To that end, the nonprofit Great Lakes Observing System, or GLOS, is asking ice fishing anglers and others who go out on the ice to gather and submit measurements of thickness, as well as observations ...