Great Lakes Satellite

Lake Erie ice crack forming

Satellite imagery captured on Sunday showed a "massive crack" forming across the frozen surface of Lake Erie. Timelapse footage from the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) shows the crack forming. CIRA said the "massive crack" and impressive view was captured by satellite GOES-19 earlier on Feb. 8.

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Lake Erie was almost completely frozen over. Then a massive 90-mile crack split the ice in two.

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Satellite captures massive 80-mile fracture splitting Lake Erie ice

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Lake Erie ice crack forms across surface

NOAA posted a time-lapse of a massive 80-mile-long fracture of surface ice over Lake Erie on Feb. 8.

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Massive crack opens on Lake Erie’s ice

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See it from space! Massive crack on Lake Erie’s ice

Stunning satellite images show the Great Lakes rapidly freezing over after brutal cold snap

Lake Erie leads at 95% frozen while Lake Huron surges 21% in one week as Arctic air drives rapid ice expansion across the region.

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Satellite images show Great Lakes ice up amid bitter cold

"More than 50 percent of the Great Lakes were covered in ice as of Sunday," NOAA reported.

More than half of Great Lakes are iced over. See where they're frozen

Thick ice grew on Michigan's Great Lakes over the weekend, Feb. 1, and more may develop from this week's Arctic air. See the current coverage.

Ice Covers Great Lakes After 'Bitterly Cold' End to January

An “extensive growth of ice” was observed over the Great Lakes region in satellite imagery recorded on Sunday, February 1, following a “bitterly cold” end to January.This timelapse footage from the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) shows the chilly conditions.

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What over a century of ice data can tell us about the Great Lakes’ future

Using old records, scientists created a new dataset on ice cover since 1897. It's already being used to study a declining fish species.