SOUTH HAVEN, MI — Some say it isn’t really winter until the Lake Michigan lighthouses are caked in ice. Ok, nobody says that — but perhaps they should. Winter weather arrived with a bang ...

A chart showing 2025 ice cover on Lake Michigan. NOAA. Despite this winter's cold snap leading to increased ice formation, the Great Lakes are experiencing a long-term decline in ice coverage.

In west Michigan, the weather created natural ice formations along the shores of Lake Michigan. On Lake Michigan beaches along the west side of the state, including St. Joseph, South Haven, New ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The mid-January Arctic blast brought frigid temperatures, helping to firm up a good quantity of ice on Lake Michigan. With the sunshine and more mild conditions over ...

A winter storm has created some rare ice "sculptures" along the shores of Lake Michigan. Drone videos from Timeless Aerial Photography show areas along the shores of the Great Lake, such as Grand ...

Drone video shows Lake Michigan almost completely covered with ice near the shores of Saint Joseph, Michigan. That comes after almost a week of arctic temperatures gripped most of the country .

As of Jan. 22, Lake Michigan has only 7% of ice cover. That is well below the 20% average for late January.The lack of ice is due to the above-average water temperature. Currently, Lake Michigan's ...

Lake Michigan is teeming with life. But over time, its food web — from the smallest plankton to the largest fish — has been impacted. Overfishing and waves of invasive species have taken their ...

A video captured by a drone shows striking ice formations on a pier in the town of Grand Haven in Michigan. Located on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, the structure is almost completely frozen ...

But Li stuck with the open water swimming and eventually made the transition to ice swimming in 2018, the same year she moved to Chicago. “When I moved to Chicago, because Lake Michigan is just ...

Great Lakes ice coverage reached a historic low last year since recordkeeping began back in 1973, according to NOAA.. Lake Michigan is the second largest of the Great Lakes by volume and depth ...