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Figure 5.10
These two views compare the ice on Lake Erie on (A) February 20, 1997 and (B) February 25, 1998 (NASA photographs NM22-773-083 and NASA7-707-049). View (B) looks south over the lakes toward the Chesapeake on the horizon. Sunglint highlights the water. The box shows the approximate area covered in view (A). Despite regional snow cover, no ice covered the eastern Great Lakes in February 1998 when view (B) was taken.

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