Yooperlites are a variety of sodalite-rich syenite found in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Early spring on the Great Lakes has historically seen a few major deadly disasters as shipping season kicks off. But the ...

Last Thanksgiving Day weekend, the region was paralyzed by a “historic” storm that saw almost ... on the first day of 2025, Lake Erie was still ice-free, though a subsequent cool down saw ...

The warning is just one of many from local safety officials, as the recent rain, freezing rain, ice storm and weekend snow ... dangerous ice conditions on Lake Erie. Tanasaijevic is advising ...

But a high degree of ice cover on the lake tamps down ... it is more likely to come from larger winter storm systems than a windy day around Lake Erie.

As the storm pulls away Sunday, brutally cold air will descend across Upstate, and more lake effect snow will fall in areas downwind of Lake Erie and Lake ... quarter-inch of ice could accumulate ...

Affected counties: A lake effect snow ... Cattaraugus and southern Erie counties 1 to 3 inches of snow is predicted in Jefferson and Lewis counties Up to a tenth of an inch of ice is also ...

It results in less cloud cover and thus less lake-effect snow when storm systems move over the lake. Current Lake Erie ice coverage: Lake Erie is the shallowest of the lakes and usually freezes ...

There is still more than twice the amount of ice on the eastern end of Lake Erie than is needed to remove ... The good news, McLaughlin said, is that a storm forecast to hit New England and ...

This storm brought the first measurable snowfall ... growing ice cover on Lake Erie and the Great Lakes as a whole. Lake Erie ice cover has shot up to 80% this week. Approximately 8,000 square ...

Storm Team 2 Weather Forecast The Manitoulin became stuck around 11:43 a.m. Wednesday. The Detroit Ice Desk received a call that it was outside of the Buffalo River break wall in Lake Erie.