The water level for Lake Michigan and Lake Huron (measured as one), was 578.61 feet, up 4 inches from April, but down 6 inches from the May average — and 8 inches from May 2024.. Lakes St. Clair ...

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.

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 ...

Sea lampreys abounded in all Great Lakes in 2024 after treatment was limited during COVID. But the parasitic, invasive fish are expected to decline. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ ...

It's a fish story with a big, unexpected plot twist. A native Great Lakes whitefish thought extinct for nearly 40 years has been rediscovered by scientists – in the wrong Great Lake.. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Buoys 1, 11, and 12 in southern Lake Huron were the last of 81 buoys from Buffalo, N.Y., to Sault Ste. Marie to be hauled onto the deck of the 225-foot buoy tender Saturday, said Ensign Philip ...

(In 2002, just 9.5% of the Great Lakes froze over during the winter, the lowest extent on record, while the greatest extent was 94.7% in 1979.) And no lake is as iced over as Superior, where the ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP)-- The U.S. Coast Guard is conducting its annual retrieval of buoys from the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway. Operation Fall Retrieve began last month and is ...