Great Lakes ice cover 13 percent higher than last year because air temperatures are far, far below normal.
As more and more sections of the planet are hammered very hard by extreme cold, my mountain was finally above zero at night last night! It rained and iced today, due to temperatures being a balmy 36ºF. But it is going back to zero again after tomorrow. Meanwhile, the severe cold that hammered me is now hammering Europe: UK weather gets an Arctic blast that ‘could kill one person every seven minutes’ | Daily Mail Online