Satellite Picture Of Great Lakes Frozen

A heavy amount of lake effect snow over the great lakes.

Satellite picture of great lakes frozen. Unreasonably frequent reloading or hotlinking of these images into outside web pages adversely affects noaa s ability to serve the public and is forbidden violation of this policy may be cause to temporarily block access to this site or pursue legal action in response to a denial of service attack on a federal government computer. Modis satellite image from february 19 2014. Ice cover on lake. Modis satellite image from january 25 2014.

The noaa great lakes coastal forecasting system shows the great lakes at 91 8 ice cover on march 5 2014. On a rare clear day you can see over 80 ice cover on the great lakes. The first image shows the great lakes in natural color in the early afternoon when ice covered 80 3 percent of the lakes according to noaa s great lakes environmental research laboratory. The second false color image uses a combination of shortwave infrared near infrared and red modis bands 7 2 1 that helps distinguish ice from snow.

The true color image above from the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer modis on nasa s aqua satellite shows the mostly frozen state of the great lakes on feb. The great lakes which is the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world is seen almost entirely frozen in the images nasa captured using its aqua satellite.