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great lakes snow picture. AMAZING!

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  1. Pallet Pete

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    What is the ice over % compared to last year at this time?
     
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    Erie was at 98% a couple weeks ago
     
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    Yeah, but Erie's only a couple feet deep.:D:rofl: :lol:
    That pic reminds me of the North Wall on Game of Thrones.
     
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    Lmao...sometimes winter makes it feel like we are living on the North side of the Wall.
     
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    Living next to a large body of water that never sees ice on it, it is hard to imagine the Great Lakes frozen over. to see the pictures of the Atlantic waves that were so full of ice that they were being called slurpies was quite something as well.
     
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  8. JustWood

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    With the heavy snow pack on the Lake Erie Basin and the ice , we will have a cool summer guaranteed !!!
     
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    So what makes Lake Michigan and Lake Ontario less frozen? more water flow or current? more wind on the surface?
     
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    Deeper. Takes longer for the water to cool off.
     
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    That makes sense. Probably takes longer to warm up in the summer as well.
     
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    Pete, that's a great overhead shot of the lakes. Two years in a row now of major ice over on the Great Lakes.

    Here's what Lake Erie looked like from ground level on Sunday... Emma loved it! She's standing on the beach just a few dozen feet from the lake.

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    Here's a pic that shows the profile. While Superior is much deeper, it's further north, so gets better ice than Lake Michigan..

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    I love that pic
     
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    I knew I had seen something like this before. Probably in my high school geography textbook. lol Looking at some of the elevation drops makes you appreciate the engineering to create the lock and canal systems. especially before GPS
     
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    Very cool pic!
     
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    I like that one I haunt seen it before....
     
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