Above: Satellite view of the Great Lakes on a recent clear day (December 22, 2019), showing less than 2% overall ice cover, about normal for this point in the winter, mainly in Green Bay and ...

3 p.m.: CenterPoint outages just below 5,000 customers According to the CenterPoint outage map, 4,985 customers ... system moving from Iowa toward Lake Superior, creating ideal conditions for ...

In the Great Lakes, NOAA data is used for everything from going out on a boat, fishing, swimming, coastal flooding.

The overall highest percentage of ice coverage for all the Great Lakes took place in 1979 when they were 94.7% covered, NOAA said. Lake Superior has frozen over once since 1973, according to NOAA.

Jay Austin is a professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth and works in the Large Lakes Observatory which is focused on Lake Superior research. Some of LLO’s funding does come from NOAA ...

The wrath of Lake Superior has claimed countless ships throughout history, including the Edmund Fitzgerald-- one of the most famous shipwrecks of the 20th century. But recently, a discovery was ...

The kind of science done by NOAA is technically demanding, so it remains to be seen what will happen. NOAA has been spearheading efforts to map the bottom ... used to monitor lake conditions ...