During the summer months, the Keweenaw Peninsula – a rocky wilderness jutting out into Lake Superior – has more sunshine than ...

As it stands, almost all monitoring is done during the spring, summer and early fall months when there's easier access to ...

Here’s your First Alert Forecast: MONDAY: Mix of sun & clouds with rain chances overnight into Tuesday. High 70°. Winds ENE ...

Staffing at NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory was already reduced by more than one-third in 2025.

Subzero temperatures, high winds and ice-free Great Lakes combined this past week to increase lake effect snow totals across much of Michigan, the National Weather Service said. Some locations in ...

Petoskey, Michigan, in the northern part of the state, recorded 11 inches of snow between Monday and Tuesday. As this lake-effect event tapers off late Wednesday night, a clipper system could ...

Parts of Northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula could see a foot of new snow by Friday, thanks to lake effect moisture, the National Weather Service said. Winter weather advisories are in ...

EFFECT SNOW IS THAT IT’S ALWAYS A VERY TINY BAND ... WILL STAY OVER LAND BEFORE THEY KIND OF WOBBLE BACK OUT OVER LAKE MICHIGAN. AND THE PLACEMENT OF THAT BAND. THIS IS A VERY TOUGH THING ...

will set the stage for lake effect snow showers. Lake Michigan remains ice-free, allowing cold air traveling across its open waters to pick up moisture, which will rise and create bands of lake ...

It also appears another dump of colder air will drop in next Wednesday/Thursday firing up the lake effect snow again across Northern Michigan.

The latest significant lake-effect snow event will bury areas to the east of Lakes Ontario and Erie from late Wednesday through the weekend. In some spots, feet of snow are possible, with ...

Lake effect snow has already pummeled some parts of Michigan this winter, and more is forecast to fall. The heavy snowfall in some places — the UP and the northwestern Lower Peninsula — has ...