19.04.2014 - 06:45 [ Huffington Post ]

The Great Lakes Are Still Almost Half Frozen, And It Could Affect The Environment For Years

As of Wednesday, 37.1 percent of the lakes remain covered in ice. While that‘s way down from a high of 92.2 percent in early March, pictured above — and the second-highest ice cover since recording began in 1973 — it‘s still an unprecedented amount of ice to have at this time of year, as an Environment Canada bar graph illustrates: