Reported By weather.aol.com on 2014-06-12
With summer just around the corner, for the first time in seven months the Great Lakes are officially free of ice…. Following one of the coldest winter’s on record for the region with temperatures from Jan. 1 to April 1 averaging seven degrees below normal, the Great Lakes hit their second highest ice coverage on record, reaching 92.19 percent on March 6, 2014.