A sandy beach is dotted with chunks of ice. The waves are hitting the beach and there is no ice out on the water.

Great Lakes ice coverage reaches historic low

“We’ve crossed a threshold in which we are at a historic low for ice cover for the Great Lakes as a whole,” says GLERL’s Bryan Mrockza, a physical scientist. “We have never seen ice levels this low in Mid-February on the lakes since our records began in 1973.”

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