A warm start to the winter season has left the Great Lakes virtually ice-free and with their lowest ice cover to kick off a new year in at least 50 years.

On New Year’s Day, only 0.35% of the Great Lakes were covered in ice, the lowest on record for the date, and well below the historical average of nearly 10% for this point in winter, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL).

This year’s missing ice in the Great Lakes adds to a growing trend of winter ailments plaguing the US, from dwindling snowpacks in the West to an ongoing snow drought in the Northeast, all becoming more common due to warming temperatures from the climate crisis.

  • Flying Squid
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    41 year ago

    Okay, who have you organized so far for this mob? Where and when are they meeting?

    • Masterblaster
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      01 year ago

      you keep asking me what i’ve done. what have YOU done? where’s our clandestine communications? it takes cooperation.

      • Flying Squid
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        11 year ago

        No, I’m asking you when and where the mob is meeting. You’ve said there has to be a mob. When and where will the mob be? Just give us a time and a date and a place.

        • Masterblaster
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          -31 year ago

          the point is to keep calling for one until people take it seriously enough to form one. it’s a war. whose side are you on?

          • Flying Squid
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            01 year ago

            We can’t take it seriously enough to form one unless you tell us when and where to form it. It seems like you don’t really want this mob to happen since you aren’t being proactive about it.

              • Flying Squid
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                01 year ago

                Yes. I’m on the side that wants to know when and where the mob is meeting. I’m not sure why you want me to fuck off when you want a mob. Shouldn’t you want me to join?