Record Lows For Ice And Snow This Past January, Breaks 100 Year Record

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Ice on the Great Lakes differs every year. Normally, by the start of February, ice begins to close up Lake Erie, the closest of the lakes to Pittsburgh.By now, Lake Erie should be 55 percent covered with ice, and it’s pretty much ice-free with ice only on 0.4 percent of it. This isn’t the first time Lake Erie has lacked ice, but, at this time last year, Lake Erie was 91 percent covered.(Photo Credit: NOAA – Great Lakes Experimental Research Laboratory