As of March 16, average ice cover across the lakes was roughly 13.5%. Lake Superior was at 9.2%, and Lake Michigan was at 10.7%.

The average annual ice cover over the Great Lakes region responds very closely to seasonal changes in annual temperature. However, each lake exhibits its own individual response and timescale ...

Our winter ice fishing season has ended in a flash, with no fatalities for those anglers stranded on Lake Erie last week.

With the warm weather these past few days the ice on the Great Lakes is quickly receding. Here's a look at how the ice cover ...

Enough people have contacted the watershed district that officials decided to hold an informational workshop later this month ...

The 2025 sturgeon spearing season has gone down as the fifth-best harvest in the last 10 years. By comparison, 2024 was the ...

The Blue Earth County Sheriff's Office says emergency responders were called to Madison Lake around 1 PM after receiving ...

Cold air. Proper bouts of snow. And Lake Erie is mostly iced over. As of Feb. 18, 2025 Lake Erie is 94.78% iced over (scroll down to see a satellite picture of the Lake). This is stark change to ...