Satellite Pictures Of Lake Michigan Ice

Gorgeous satellite image shows polar vortex over michigan.
Satellite pictures of lake michigan ice. It shows the thick ice cover in western lake erie along with shipping lanes carved by ice breakers. Lake michigan lake st. The web image is a closeup drawn from this wider view of western lake erie and lake st. Polar vortex 2019 has settled over the great lakes resulting in a beautiful satellite image of michigan in its winter splendor.
Clair lake superior manistique lake mullet lake muskegon river sanford lake st. 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. There is still some ice on the hardy. Clair river torch lake whitefish.
This is a landsat geocover 2000 satellite image map of michigan. Cities rivers lakes mountains and other features shown in this image include. Satellite images show how quickly warmer temperatures have melted ice along lake michigan. Most of that growth.
The images posted by the national weather service show the thickening of the ice last week when the. They only post them when it is cloud free enough to have a decent view of the lake. The greenish hue around the south shore of the lake may be sediment from rivers washing into the lake. The best resolution is 250 meters.
It is a great way to get a sense of the extent of the ice on our big lake. Ann arbor mi battle creek mi bay city mi. 15 when 7 55 percent of the lake was covered in ice. The natural color image below was captured by the operational land imager on the landsat 8 satellite on february 15 2014.