Table 2.

Dates of Ice‐on, Ice‐off, and Ice‐Present Periods (Days) at the CB and LI Sites in Western Lake Erie

	2011–2012 (first winter)		2012–2013 (second winter)		2013–2014 (third winter)		2014–2015 (fourth winter)		2015–2016 (fifth winter)
	CB	LI	CB	LI	CB	LI	CB	LI	CB	LI
Ice‐on date	21 Jan (21) 2012	Not frozen	22 Jan (22) 2013	24 Jan (24) 2013	1 Dec (345) 2013	7 Dec (351) 2013	6 Jan (6) 2015	5 Jan (5) 2015	7 Jan (7) 2016	12 Jan (12) 2016
Ice‐out date	23 Jan (23) 2012	Not frozen	13 Mar (72) 2013	27 Mar (86) 2013	27 Mar (86) 2014	31 Mar (90) 2014	15 Mar (74) 2015	27 Mar (86) 2015	15 Feb (46) 2016	20 Feb (51) 2016
Ice‐present period	3	0	51	63	117	114	69	82	40	22 a

Note. For CB, the ice‐present period was obtained from the NOAA website (http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/data/pgs/glice); for LI, the ice‐present period was observed directly via a three‐direction real‐time camera operated by NOAA‐GLERL (http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/recon/). Numbers in parentheses indicate the day of the year.

^a No ice was present from 27 January to 13 February 2016