Lake Erie is nearly frozen over: Could it hit a rare full freeze?

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Clear skies over the Great Lakes on Wednesday gave satellites an unobstructed view of Lake Erie’s rapidly expanding ice cover, revealing just how close the shallowest Great Lake has come to freezing almost entirely. Recent satellite imagery showed ice blanketing most of Lake Erie, with only small pockets of open water remaining. The view came as the lake’s ice coverage surged ...