GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Snow-covered dunes and frozen lighthouses. Beaches that have disappeared under sheets of shelf ice that ...

More than a quarter of the Great Lakes are covered in ice after cold weather settled in.

So you think we just had a really cold stretch of weather? We did, but does it compare to past cold spells? I hate to say this, but most of us didn’t even have a top-20 stretch of below freezing days.