That's the Lake Michigan ... occurrences. Tsunamis are also much larger and catastrophic. These wave events are often confused with seiches, which also occur in the Great Lakes.

One of the worst wrecks in all the Great Lakes happened in Lake Michigan in 1860. The 252-foot Lady Elgin, a passenger ship, was off the coast of northern Illinois when another ship rammed into it ...

Ashtabula, Ohio — Jim Timonere has been watching and waiting for Lake Erie to freeze over, just to catch a break. It’s been a brutal winter for communities along the southeastern and eastern ...

The Great Lakes reached their highest ice coverage in three years on February 22, hitting 52.23%. However, a warming trend caused the ice coverage to plummet to 28.95% within a few days.

25, 2025, according to NOAA. Here is more on the Great Lakes and ice coverage data. The average depth of Lake Erie is about 62 feet 210 feet, maximum — with 871 miles of shoreline, the Great ...

Lake Agassiz. Among the Great Lakes, Lake Superior is the largest, covering an impressive 31,699 square miles. When Lakes Michigan and Huron are considered as one—due to their connected waters ...

Editor's note: This article is published through the Great Salt Lake Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative that partners news, education and media organizations to help inform people ...

was discovered last summer off the shores of Lake Superior after remaining hidden 600-feet beneath the surface for 132 years. One of the first all-steel freighters on the Great Lakes, it was ...

Clocking in at roughly 35 miles wide and 75 miles long, the Great Salt Lake is the largest natural saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere. The lake's name comes from the nature of the water ...

The average annual ice cover over the Great Lakes region responds very closely to seasonal changes in annual temperature. However, each lake exhibits its own individual response and timescale ...