Great Lakes Ice Coverage on Feb 23, 2015, photo by NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory
In Great Lakes Total Ice Cover Nears 85% NOAA reports:
The NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory is showing total ice cover of 84.4% as of February 22, 2015, well above the long term average and closing in on last year’s mark of 92.5% coverage on March 6, 2014. In this image, Lake Erie is a vast white plain, joining Lake Huron and Lake Superior with coverages above 90% and only small areas of open water. This image was taken by the Suomi NPP satellite’s VIIRS instrument around 1803Z on February 23, 2015.
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Michigan in Pictures 
Hmm. Should we hope for a record-breaking year, or just a break in the cold?
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It’s such a hard thing to know what to root for: more cold keeps the water locked under the ice, raising lake levels. Unfortunately, it’s killing crops for next year already and getting close to killing vines & fruit trees.
Thankfully, Mother Nature doesn’t care what we root for!
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oh My!
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seeing the home state like this always brings chills, no pun intended.
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It might not surprise you to learn it’s bringing them here as well. ;)
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Here’s one more that will make you shiver. Michigan is so cool! What other state can look like this from space?
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I use every excuse I can think of to head north in the winter. Northern Michigan country cold rejuvenates. Southeastern Michigan city cold sucks.
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You have to love our state. It is magnificent from space and at ground level. Our summers are sweet, our autumns are gorgeous, but our winters are exceptional.
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