The Great Lakes Observing System is facing potential shutdown of its real-time data network of buoys and meteorological towers under a fiscal 2026 Trump administration budget proposal that cuts ...

According to Verhamme, there are around 40 buoys across the Great Lakes that report real-time conditions, including buoys serviced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The New York Great Lake Research Consortium (GLRC) has members from both private and public universities located across New York State with interests in Great Lakes issues. Using funding provided by ...

Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant (IISG) have four buoys now in place on the Great Lakes which inform scientists, weather forecasters, anglers, boaters, paddlers, surfers, swimmers and educational programs ...

After 15 years of below-average water levels, Lakes Superior, Michigan, and Huron are now well above normal, suggesting that climate change's impact on the fourth seacoast may be more ...

Data from Great Lakes buoys are processed at the Great Lakes Observing System, or GLOS — a nonprofit organization housed in NOAA’s Ann Arbor lab — then made public on the Seagull website.

What to expect for Great Lakes water temperatures this summer. ... Along the shores near Whitefish point, buoys have been reporting temperatures in the lower to mid-50s.

A warm start to the winter season has left the Great Lakes virtually ice-free and with their lowest ice cover to kick off a new year in at least 50 years. On New Year’s Day, only 0.35% of the ...

Ice collects along the shore of Lake Michigan as temperatures were in the single-digits for most of the day on Feb. 17 in Chicago. As it stands, almost all monitoring of the Great Lakes is done ...

WASHINGTON, D. C. - The U.S. Coast Guard will ultimately need more than $3 billion to maintain its icebreaking capacity in wintry weather along the Great Lakes, a new U.S. Government ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — Severe cuts proposed at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) would shutter a Great Lakes data network which aids fishermen and helps forecast threats ...