Lake Erie freezes often," Lofgren said. Actually, it will prevent further lake effect snow for that season. Most of the lakes have between inches of ice covering with parts of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron with anywhere between inches of ice. Weather temperatures are expected to rise through the weekend starting Saturday with a high of The January average temperature was a whopping 7.
Flash frozen forward, and what a difference a nearly two-week Arctic blast can make, with temperatures falling to 25 below zero in some areas around Lake Superior and staying below zero for nearly all of a day stretch.
February in Duluth has been an astonishing 17 degrees colder than the year normal. That's actually more ice than normal for the date. These are just estimates, however, that use satellite technology that can read temperatures at the surface. The estimates sometimes get it wrong on what is very cold water and what is ice, and usually it takes satellite photos, taken on a clear day, to verify the true ice cover.
A satellite photo taken Tuesday shows solid white ice formed in Chequamegon Bay and around much of the Apostle Islands area, as well as parts of Thunder Bay and, of course, the Duluth-Superior harbor. Cloud cover is to blame for this. Without that consistently cold air place, ice has a hard time forming on the lake. This is much below average going back the past 40 years.
Where do we go from here? Over the next seven days, we do get colder, but not arctic air cold. The kind of cold we need to build ice up quickly. There are good signs that we will see arctic air toward the end of the month, but that air would need to stick around for days to see meaningful ice formation. So will the lake freeze? So, that means our lake effect snow risk may last all winter, which, in turn, means, more snow.
A larger storm can have some extra punch from lake enhancement, which would also still be in play. Skip to content. Watch Live. First Alert Weather. First Alert Science School.
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