Stunning Pictures Of The Great Lakes Frozen In 2014

In the spirit of enjoying the winter season, I took my daughter down to lake Ontario. What we saw was quite amazing!

I have lived in southern Ontario for the majority of my life, and have visited the great lakes more times than I can even remember. But I have never seen them as frozen as they have been this year. In fact at times, as much as 88% of the lakes surfaces have been ice. That is the most since 1994. (photo above is from our trip, people enjoying the frozen lake)

Here are several more photo’s of what the great lakes have looked like this winter.

The St. Joseph Lighthouse on North Pier, Lake Michigan, on Jan. 6, 2014; Photographer: HotSpot/Landov

NASA’s satellite January 6, 2014

People walk past a cave at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in northern Wisconsin. The caves are usually accessible only by water, but Lake Superior’s rock-solid ice cover is letting people walk to them for the first time since 2009. Photograph: Brian Peterson/AP

Here is a video report I did from lake Ontario on February 17 2014.

As I state in the video, this winter has thrown a curve ball into the theory of the planet continually heating up over the last 50 years. Many publications have stated that the cold winter is due to warming in the arctic, that has pushed the cold temperatures south. I have not seen any evidence of that statement yet, and during the summer we actually saw the opposite of that. (arctic sea ice grew by 29%).

What we can see in this environment Canada graph, is a trend. Several years with less ice coverage followed by one or two years of much higher ice coverage of the lakes. A constant fluctuation.

We often forget about the beauty that winter can bring, even though it is all around us. I say forget the main stream hype about global warming/cooling and just get out and enjoy it!