“We’re seeing more and more of these years recently where we have little to no lake ice. Right now most of the ice that’s on Lake Superior is infringing bays like Chequamegon or Whitefish,” said Dr. Jay Austin, Professor of Physics and Astronomy and the Large Lakes Observatory at UMD.

“The lake is about 5% covered [right now], where normally we’d be at about 30% or 40% this time of year,” he said.

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