Interesting Image of Great Lakes Region

From NASA's Earth Observatory:

The NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory is showing total ice cover of 84.4% as of February 22, 2015, well above the long term average and closing in on last year's mark of 92.5% coverage on March 6, 2014. In this image, Lake Erie is a vast white plain, joining Lake Huron and Lake Superior with coverages above 90% and only small areas of open water. This image was taken by the Suomi NPP satellite's VIIRS instrument around 1803Z on February 23, 2015.

View the current Great Lakes ice coverage map athttp://coastwatch.glerl.noaa.gov/glsea/cur/glsea_cur.png

h/t to the NOAA Environmental Visualization Laboratory http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/MediaDetail2.php?MediaID=1677&MediaTypeID=1