Last Ice - Lake St. Clare & St. Clare River

MODIS Hi-Res/true color satellite image - Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - NOAA/Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory

Here is a neat satellite image that shows the last remnants of the ice along the south shore of Lake Erie and the southern tip of Lake Huron extending into the St. Clare River.  A freighter was reportedly stuck in the flow ice on the St. Clare River near Marine City, Michigan which required the assistance of U.S. and Canadian coast guard tug boats to set it free.

Most ice is out across the southern half of the Great Lakes.  Warmer temperatures are on the way for the very end of March and the beginning of April.  In fact, portions of the lower Great Lakes including southern Wisconsin, northern Illinois and southern Lower Michigan could experience the first 70 degree readings of the spring during the later half of next week!