Lake Erie is almost completely iced over, and over the weekend, the frozen surface split open in dramatic fashion. A crack stretching more than 80 miles formed Sunday, running from near the Canadian ...

No. The Great Lakes are completely ice-free as of May 11, according to the GLERL. As of May 8, 2026, the U.S. Army Corps of ...

The ice on Lake Erie is slowly melting. After some new ice formed over Lake Erie on Feb. 26, the U.S. National Ice Center says that the ice coverage on Lake Erie is back to 70 percent. Jonathan ...

ATLANTA — After weeks of heavy ice across the Great Lakes, the massive 80-mile crack that once split Lake Erie from Port Burwell, Ontario, to the Cleveland shoreline has almost disappeared. "It's less ...

In late January, Lake Erie has the most ice coverage out of all the Great Lakes. The U.S. National Ice Center, which provides mariners and naval forces operating in polar, subpolar and Great Lakes ...

Satellite imagery from GOES-19 captured a massive crack forming across Lake Erie’s ice on Feb. 8. Ice cover matters because it heavily impacts Great Lakes shipping – a multi-billion-dollar industry – ...

Edwards-Opperman says rapid changes in the weather are known to shift these fissures in the Great Lakes, especially in the shallow waters of Lake Erie, which tend to freeze and thaw more quickly.