This year there is not going to be much ice on the great lakes but they have froze over up to 80+% coverage.
Lake St. Clair, my backyard, had a couple hundred cars on it this weekend. That lake is well over 400sq miles.
St. Clair River from Port Huron to Lake St. Clair is pretty well plugged up right now from all the ice coming down from Huron and bottle necking into the South Channel. US and Canadian cutters have been working the river and Lake St. Clair so freighters can still pass.
I happened to have put the drone up today. That’s the St. Clair River this morning. A freighter led by the Samuel Risley(huge Canadian cutter) passed about an hour earlier.
The photo below was also taken this morning of Biscayne Bay, it was docked in town to get supplies and fuel up. They send a tanker to fill it up while it’s working the river.
The link below updates satellite photos daily, on clear days you can really see the ice coverage.
