Great Lakes Ice Coverage Hit A Record Low
Living in Michigan you know, we can never predict the weather. There will be days where we're supposed to get a foot of snow and only end up with a light dusting. Hey, I'm not really complaining. I like snow, but dig driving in it.
So far we've had a pretty mild winter. It looks like after this mini cold spell, things are going to start warming up in February. We're expected to get more rain then snow.
With January and December being warmer than normal, the entire Great Lakes ice coverage has hit a record low. Only 7.7 percent of the Great Lakes are covered making this the fifth lowest amount of total ice. James Kessler, a physical scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab says,