Frozen Great Lakes.... from Space!

[Fr8monkey]

In the image below, NASA's Aqua – an Earth-observing satellite that maps the planet's water – has photographed the lakes using infrared filters that make these features easier to tell apart.

 

[Cutlass]

That's odd that some are frozen and the others not.

 

[TheLastOne36]

Lake Ontario was frozen earlier this winter.

 

[cybrxkhan]

Looks like an ice planet! But very cool.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Apparently, the ice caves were pretty nice this year.

http://www.superiortrails.com/bayfield-ice-caves.html

 

[Farm Boy]

Lake Michigan's testicles have frozen!

 

[bhsup]

I had no idea Lake Superior froze over like that! So they just shut down the shipping for the winter or something?

 

[Cutlass]

The Great Lakes have fleets of icebreakers working them. But when those reach the limit of what they can do, shipping stops until the ice goes out.

 

[metatron]

That's odd that some are frozen and the others not.

Michigan and Ontarion have more water relative to their surface area (compared to Erie and Huron), so i suppose they take longer to cool of.
Superior may be affected because it's farthest north-west.
I wouldn't know. *shrug*

[table="Promotions"]Lake|Surface Area|Volume|Ratio A/V
Superior|82,000 km²|12,000km³|6.8
Ontario|19,000km²|1,640 km³|11.6
Michigan|58,000 km²|4,900 km³|11.8
Huron|60,000 km²|3,500km³|17.1
Erie|25,700 km²|480km³|53.5[/table]

 

[Bugfatty300]

Reminds me of moldy dog turds for some reason.

 

[Grisu]

so that's where our winter is hiding

 

[timtofly]

Michigan and Ontarion have more water relative to their surface area (compared to Erie and Huron), so i suppose they take longer to cool of.
Superior may be affected because it's farthest north-west.
I wouldn't know. *shrug*

It is all those Asian carp keeping the waters active.

 

[Cutlass]

so that's where our winter is hiding

I was hearing earlier on the news, the past year has been globally the 4th hottest on record. But that is obscured in the US, because more than half the population in the US lives where we are having the coldest winter in a long time. But Alaska has been running about 15F above normal temps this year.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Yes, this has been one of the coldest and snowiest winters in my recent memory. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen a month long single digit streak before this year, or a snowpack that's getting close to 3 months old.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Lake Ontario doesn't give a crap apparently.

 

[emzie]

Yes, this has been one of the coldest and snowiest winters in my recent memory. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen a month long single digit streak before this year, or a snowpack that's getting close to 3 months old.