SOUTH HAVEN, MI — Some say it isn’t really winter until the Lake Michigan lighthouses are caked in ice. Ok, nobody says that — but perhaps they should. Winter weather arrived with a bang ...

Recent breathtaking drone footage shows an ice-coated and still Lake Michigan winter wonderland and its lighthouses. Although the Feb. 19 video by Nate's Dronography makes the lake appear frozen ...

Lake Michigan covers over 22,000 square miles and is over 300 miles long from north to south. In the winter, ice piles up along the shoreline making for unique formations and dangerous conditions.

A chart showing 2025 ice cover on Lake Michigan. NOAA. Despite this winter's cold snap leading to increased ice formation, the Great Lakes are experiencing a long-term decline in ice coverage.

As ice coverage across the Great Lakes falls from winter highs with spring and summer warming ahead, Lake Michigan is likely to end up with a just-below-average season. Lake Michigan reached an ...

On Lake Michigan beaches along the west side of the state, including St. Joseph, South Haven, New Buffalo and Saugatuck Dunes State Park, the lake was covered in ice, settling in unique shapes and ...

Ice cover is highly variable. Lake Michigan has had as much as 93% of its surface covered, in 2014, while in 2002 coverage hit a low of 12%. But as human action, largely the burning of fossil ...

Shards of ice pile up on Lake Michigan along the South Haven Pier in South Haven, Mich., on Tuesday,... [+] March 19, 2019. Joel Bissell/Kalamazoo Gazette via AP ...

You might think it goes without saying that walking on a frozen Lake Michigan is dangerous. But the Chicago Police Department's Marine Unit had reason to tweet this warning in all caps: DO NOT DO ...

Look at all the ice! This was the view Thursday PM from the South Haven Lighthouse. There’s ice as far as you can see. Also look at the “pancake ice” in the river channel. The high ...