Great Lakes ice coverage falls 71 percent over 40 years, researcher says

[NickB79]

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/10/10636825-great-lakes-ice-coverage-falls-71-percent-over-40-years-researcher-says

"The study doesn’t include the current winter, but satellite photos show that only about 5 percent of Great Lakes surface froze over this winter, the Detroit Free Press said. That’s down from years such as 1979, when there was as much as 94 percent ice coverage. On average, about 40 percent of the surfaces freeze over, the newspaper said."

[MichiganVote]

1. 78' and 79' were very hard winters. The reverse of this year and then some.

[Viking12]

2. Related links

http://www.in.gov/dnr/lakemich/files/Tue_Stardust2_300_Jia_Wang_TemporaL_anD_Spatial_Variability_of_Great_Lakes_Ice_Cover.pdf

http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/2011JCLI4066.1