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Historic Shipwrecks Come to Light in the Great Lakes With an underwater drone named Rhody, archaeologists are mapping some of the dozens of sunken vessels in Lake Ontario.
The National Weather Service used lake-effect data to forecast the duration and severity of the 2022 Christmas blizzard in Northwest Michigan.
Illinois — and other Great Lakes states with a long history of industrial pollution — will suffer if hard-won protections are eliminated or weakened.
The Golden Snowball started as a competition between National Weather Service offices in each of the participating cities following the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977.
This week Winter Storm Lola will serve as a reminder that astronomical winter has not yet ended. The system will bring the threat of heavy snow and blizzard conditions to the Central Plains and ...
The winter of 1977 was colder. Three other storms dumped more snow on Cincinnati. So, what made the Great Blizzard of 1978 so devastating? The storm that struck more tha40 years ago brought snow ...
A company that purchased two Michigan nuclear plants to decommission them, now plans to restart one. Here's where nuclear plants ring the Great Lakes.
The Golden Snowball started as a competition between National Weather Service offices in each of the participating cities following the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977. When the Weather Service ...
This week marks 46 years since the "Great Blizzard of 1978." The massive winter storm hit the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes January 25-27.
A legend to those who lived through it, the blizzard of 1978 has a definitive place in Cincinnati lore. It happened 45 years ago this January as the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes were paralyzed by ...
The idea was popularized in a 1977 book by Jay Gouley called “The Great Lakes Triangle,” according to Wisconsin maritime historian Brendon Baillod.
Parts of the Great Lakes region will continue to be battered by lake-effect snow, with warnings in place into Friday. See the forecast.