"...the data show that winter is approximately two weeks shorter per decade on average across all five lakes since the winter of 1995-1996."
https://research.noaa.gov/winter-is-becoming-shorter-in-the-waters-of-the-great-lakes/
Ok, I'll give my backstory, too! I used to be a member of tennesseewx.com then I moved to IL making that no longer relevant - had always heard references to "the morons at americanwx" so I became one