Although a deep freeze has settled over Ontario, you wouldn’t know it by looking at Lake Huron.
Satellite imagery has surfaced showing ice formations on the edges of the lake — which amounts to about 20 per cent of the body’s surface coverage.
Coastal Stewardship Coordinator at the Lake Huron Centre for Coastal Conservation, Hannah Cann, says the lake freezing is relatively normal — despite frigid conditions currently burdening Ontario.
Based on current projections, Lake Huron will not be freezing much more than it already has.
Cann says the lake is forecasted to freeze 28 per cent throughout the winter, far from the biggest freeze recorded.
The winter of 1994 saw Lake Huron freeze 98 per cent.
More recently, in 2014, the lake saw over 90 per cent ice coverage.
Over the past two decades, Cann says the average ice formation on Lake Huron has declined, showing indications of climate change.
Click here for an infographic on the rate of lake freezing over the lake 40 years.
