![[OC] Lake Erie Ice Concentration Winter 25-26](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/7jd07ujaq6gg1-1024x605.png "[OC] Lake Erie Ice Concentration Winter 25-26")
Last time we saw Erie officially reach a full 100% freeze was the winter of 1995-96! We are in the middle of (as it looks right now going off weather models) potentially a 20+ day stretch of below freezing weather so time to see how close we can get! For those wondering has only hit 100% 3 times 1996,1978 and 1979.
I made the graph in excel, took the data and cleaned up the presentation a bit
SOURCE: https://apps.glerl.noaa.gov/coastwatch/webdata/statistic/ice/dat/g2025_2026_ice.dat
Posted by WxCory
12 Comments
Thank you for highlighting this problem. WE NEED TO GET RID OF ICE!
Hold up, are you saying a Great Lake can COMPLETELY ice over? The entire surface is stable ice in some capacity?
Wtf man I thought it was like just a bit off the coastline at most
I’m guessing this shuts down lake effect snow
If you walk across make sure you notify border guards
How does it go from almost zero to almost 100 in two weeks? Must have been very cold.
The beautiful irony of this is that the ice actually helps illegal crossing into the US… Which I don’t know who in the right mind would want to at this point.
Awesome thanks for posting.
So much for all that global warming!
That’s very cool for now, as it would completely shut down the lake effect snow machine for some time and for the historical factor. However that’s gonna mean it will take forever for spring to warm up.. soo…
This site also offers a great visualization of the Great Lakes ice coverage :
[https://glicetracker.github.io/](https://glicetracker.github.io/)
Does a 100% freeze mean frozen completely, or that the entire surface is frozen?
I live in between Erie and Ontario, does this mean more snow?