Cold Facts: Great Lakes freeze starts fast this year

Winter is upon us and the cold is here to last, with double-digit negative temperatures forecasted for the next week. Is there a bright side to any of this? Not really. But we offer the tiniest of silver linings! To accompany this cold snap, we’re introducing a new short-term daily feature: Cold Facts. 
Ice covered 9.4 per cent of the Great Lakes’ total surface by Wednesday of this week. That’s a fast start to freeze-up, with much more ice than there was on the same date a