Tracking a ship through the ice of Lake Erie
The sharp eye of Rick DiMaio notes a change in Lake Erie ice coverage from a port in Ontario and then around Long Point. Information from this website suggests this is the tanker Algonorth! Follow this ship today at your favorite website that shows GOES-16 animations! For example: CSPP Geosphere ; CIRA Slider. (Update the times as needed!)
This website (link) can be used to track this ship. Here is the path through 2000 UTC on 14 February 2022, in agreement with the imagery above (and below). The ship (with a draught of 7.6 m) is bound for Sarnia, Ontario (ETA at 1600 UTC on 15 February), on the south shore of Lake Huron where the St. Clair River starts. There is a lot of ice between its present position and there!
An updated loop (through 2126 UTC) is shown below. The obvious wake through the ice becomes much less obvious during the day, suggesting that the ship is passing through thicker and thicker ice.
Something similar happened on 15 February as well, with a ship (an icebreaker) leaving Cleveland.
