New Lows for Great Lakes Ice Cover

The effects of a warm winter in the upper Midwest are evident in the lack of lake ice.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story New Lows for Great Lakes Ice Cover.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Michala Garrison and Lauren Dauphin, using VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE, GIBS/Worldview, and the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership, and lake ice data from NOAA - Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory. Story by Lindsey Doermann.

Published February 29, 2024
Data acquired February 24, 2024