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Lake Erie is now at 100% ice coverage (cool Great Lakes Ice Tracker linked!) (glicetracker.github.io)
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I guess I need to revise my previous fears that my son would never get icy, snowy winters like I did due to global warming to he will get them perhaps even more than I saw due to global warming. Lake Erie hasn't gotten to 100% ice coverage since 1996.

According to GLERL's records, two lakes have frozen over completely: Lake Superior in 1973 and 1996; and Lake Erie in 1978, 1979 and 1996.

We are on track for one of the iciest years ever recorded on the Great Lakes. Pretty wild stuff!

Good article on the history of ice coverage.

Lake Superior has frozen over once since 1973, according to NOAA. The lake had 100% ice cover in 1996.
Lake Michigan's ice cover high was 93.2% in 2014.
Lake Huron had 98.2% ice cover in 1996.
Lake Erie froze over completely in 1978, 1979 and 1996.
Lake Ontario had 86.2% ice coverage in 1979.
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