Sign Out. NOAA's National Weather Service. NCDC: Climatic Extremes and Weather Events. National and Local Weather Forecast, Hurricane, Radar and Report. JetStream - An Online School for Weather. Ice continued to cling to the Great Lakes in mid-March, 2014.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASAs Aqua satellite flew over the region on and captured a false-color image of the icy scene on March 18. As of March 17, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 82.8 % of the Great Lakes remained ice-covered. That sets a new record high for this late in the season, after 35 years of record keeping. The previous mid-March ice cover high, 75.85% covered, was set on March 15, 1978. The ice cover peaked this year at 92.2 % on March 6, according to NOAAs Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL). This false-color image uses a combination of shortwave infrared, near infrared and red (MODIS bands 7,2,1) to help distinguish ice from snow, water and clouds. Credit: Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC Click to enlarge.
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