"If you drive along the Ontario shoreline of Lake Erie, you see evidence of receding bluffs, and that's because those bluffs are being battered by winter waves. When we have ice cover, it protects the shoreline against erosion."

Here are the graphs of ice cover on each lake versus how much is normal and other years. While most of the Great Lakes have increasing ice, most of the lakes are still below normal on ice cover.

Altogether, the Great Lakes are seeing healthier ice coverage this year. Here's what to know about their current conditions.

The National Weather Service, Coast Guard and at least one local fire department is warning people to stay off the ice on Lake Erie Monday as conditions could be “dangerous.”