Global warming news: New record for Great Lakes ice cover expected

Lake Michigan in January

The winter that doesn't want to end may add another record.

From the Chicago Tribune:

The ice on the Great Lakes this week covered more of the lakes' surface than at any other time since the record-setting year of 1979, and could break that year's record this week.

On Sunday, the federal Great Lakes Environment Research Laboratory recorded 90.5 percent ice coverage on the lakes, making the ice coverage more extensive than anytime since 1979, when ice covered 94.7 percent of the lakes' surface, said George Leshkevish, physical scientist with the federal lab in Ann Arbor, Mich.

And temperatures in the Great Lakes region are expected to stay below freezing until the end of the week.

The low in Chicago on Monday was -2 Fahrenheit.

Yes, it's March.

And while Vladimir Putin was scheming to seize the Crimea from the Ukraine, John Kerry was in the tropics declaring that global warming was a national security threat.

Think about that and try not to cry.

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