As of Feb. 24, Lake Erie is 86% to 87% frozen over, according to the National Weather Service office in Cleveland which handles the Erie forecast. Earlier in February, Lake Erie was 95% frozen over.

As of Feb. 18, 2025 Lake Erie is 94.78% iced over (scroll down to see a satellite picture of the Lake). This is stark change to ice coverage at this time last season when the Lake had a maximum of ...

A field of ice dunes, made when wave action gets frozen, spreads a few hundred yards into Lake Erie from Presque Isle State Park Beach 6 in Millcreek Township on Jan. 28, 2025. The ice is ...

No ice is safe!” Lakewood firefighters recently spoke with FOX 8 News after undergoing training for ice rescue scenarios. Learn more about the dangers of Lake Erie ice conditions here.

So what's the current ice status? “We’re at 86 percent ice coverage still on Lake Erie,” explained 3News senior meteorologist Matt Wintz during the “GO!” morning show Monday.

Last year, Lake Erie was practically ice free until the middle of January with coverage peaking for the season at just under 36% on Jan. 22. The last time ice coverage on the lake exceeded 90% was ...

The Great Lakes reached their highest ice coverage in three years on February 22, hitting 52.23%. However, a warming trend caused the ice coverage to plummet to 28.95% within a few days. Lake Erie ...

LAKEWOOD, Ohio (WJW) – With bitter cold temperatures in the forecast, safety officials are once again issuing a warning about dangerous ice conditions on Lake Erie. Recently, the Lakewood Fire ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Lake Erie, the shallowest of the five Great Lakes, last froze over in 1996. With ice covering more than 95% of the lake on Thursday, and continued winter weather in the forecast, could ...

A 1912 article in the Erie Times-News reported the first walk across a frozen Lake Erie. But the first crossing actually seems to have been a century earlier. Daniel Dobbins and Jesse Elliott, key ...