Marine Forecasts and General Information
Links to the Marine Pages at. . .
- NWS Chicago, IL
- NWS Cleveland, OH
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- NWS Marine Product Dissemination Webpage
Marine Forecast
There are two sources for the Marine Forecasts for the Great Lakes. The first one is off of
our Weather Now Pages. The Marine page has links for the
latest Open Lake Forecasts and NearShore Forecast.
Another source for the Open Lake Forecasts and NearShore Forecasts can be found here. If you are interested
in Marine Forecasts for the Oceans, they can be found here.
Great Lakes Water Levels
Great Lakes Water Level Homepage
from the Detroit
District of the Army Corps of Engineers.
Preliminary Water Level Data
collected
by the National Ocean Service (NOS) water level
stations. This is a form that allows you to collect 6 minute data for various sites around
the Great Lakes.
Dial a Buoy information
can be found here.
Water Temperatures
- Great Lakes Surface Temperatures from the Great Lakes Environmental Laboratory (GLERL). This is a GIF image that shows water temperatures for all the Great Lakes.
Great Lakes Weather Conditions
- Coast Guard Observations
- C-MAN and Buoy observations from
the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC).
These pages allows you to click on C-MAN and buoy sites in the Great Lakes and get the
last 24 hours of observations.
Great Lakes Ice Conditions
Great Lakes Ice Analysis from the National Ice Center.
- East Composite - includes, the St Marys River, Lake Huron, Lake St Clair, the Detroit River, and Lakes Erie and Ontario.
- West Composite - includes, Lakes Superior and Michigan.