Frozen landscape | Increasing Great Lakes ice coverage

An ice fisherman makes his way back to his car after fishing on Independence Lake in Whitmore Lake, Mich. (Patrick Record / Associated Press)

Feb. 23, 2015 1:20 PM PT

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Very cold temperatures this month have resulted in a rapid increase in Great Lakes ice coverage. At 84.4% total ice coverage, this is the second highest percentage of ice on the Great Lakes since 1994.

Snow coats Chicago’s Navy Pier, surrounded by ice-covered Lake Michigan. (Kiichiro Sato / Associated Press)

Ice forms along the shore of Lake Michigan in Chicago. Temperatures have dipped to as low as minus 13 in parts of Illinois this winter. (Kiichiro Sato / Associated Press)