Metro Detroit is headed for an unusually mild end to the workweek, with temperatures expected to surge to near-record levels by Friday, while cooler air lingers across the Thumb and parts of Southwestern Ontario.
Wisconsin author Michael Schumacher, who produced an array of works ranging from biographies of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola and musician Eric Clapton to accounts of Great Lakes shipwrecks, has died at age 75.
Another round of light snow is moving into Southeast Michigan Tuesday evening, adding to a wintry pattern that will carry through New Year’s Eve and usher in a bitterly cold start to the new year.
A surge of arctic air is bringing strong winds, heavy snow and frigid temperatures to the Great Lakes and Northeast, a day after a bomb cyclone that hit the northern U.S. Tens of thousands of customers were without power early Tuesday, with Michigan hardest hit.
The freezing rain that created hazardous travel across Southeast Michigan earlier Friday has moved out of the region, allowing conditions to steadily improve through the afternoon.
Coast Guard crews and Great Lakes mariners partnered to conduct a challenging helicopter maneuver during training day on Lake Michigan.
Travelers at the end of the Thanksgiving holiday on Sunday were finding hundreds of flights delayed and canceled in Chicago following a winter storm in the Great Lakes region, while a wintry mix of rain and snow developed in the Northeast.
A winter storm is expected to hit Metro Detroit this weekend, including significant snowfall and major travel impacts.
Cold air is sweeping across the Great Lakes region, bringing lake-effect snow from Michigan's Upper Peninsula to Western New York.
A rare event happening in the stratosphere could affect the polar vortex and cause a colder, snowier December in Michigan.
A Sudden Stratospheric Warming is happening this winter, and it might have an effect on the temperatures and snow in Michigan.
There’s something happening in the stratosphere right now that could potentially lead to more snow and colder temperatures in Michigan this winter.
Large stretches of the U.S. await one of the season’s first blasts of wintry weather as temperatures dropped in the Northern Plains and snowstorms developed across the Great Lakes.
November 10th marks the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, perhaps the most famous of all the estimated 6,500 ships that have gone down in the Great Lakes.
The Detroit Institute of Arts is giving a preview of a powerful exhibition showcasing talented Anishinaabe artists from the Great Lakes.
The Road Commission for Oakland County is working with the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy to assess options for repairs after Orion Road was closed due to flood damage.
An air quality advisory is in effect through Saturday for most of Southeast Michigan and other areas of the state.
Michigan DNR is working to improve recreational boating across 12 communities through the Waterway's Grant Program.
An air quality advisory is in effect for Southeast Michigan as smoke from the Canadian wildfires continues to move into the state.
The Holly dam and mill pond are in need of repair, and the suggestions from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) regulators have upset residents.
The Holly dam and mill pond are in need of repair, and the suggestions from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) regulators have upset residents.
"It sat there for over a hundred years and then came back on our radar completely by chance," a maritime archaeologist said after a fisherman discovered a historic shipwreck in Lake Michigan.
Illinois is getting set to close on property that officials want to buy to keep invasive carp from reaching the Great Lakes.
A few spotty rain showers will be possible Monday afternoon as a cold front sweeps across the Great Lakes. Winds will pick up as the front makes its way through Southeast Michigan.
Saugatuck Brewing Company and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources are partnering again to raise funding for lake sturgeon habitat restoration efforts across the state.
Explorers have discovered the sunken wreckage of one of the first steel cargo ships to travel the Great Lakes.
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is reminding anglers this season that regulations on the targeting and harvest of lake sturgeon are in effect.
The lake-effect snow that has fallen in parts of upstate New York, Pennsylvania and Michigan is the result of cold, moist air that blew over the Great Lakes region.
Lake-effect snow blanketed swaths of the U.S. as Thanksgiving travelers journeyed home this holiday weekend, with more snow expected to fall over the Great Lakes region through the week.
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy is reminding people how important it is to protect our water on National Stormwater Day.
The Climate Prediction Center’s eight to 14-day temperature outlook keeps portions of the Great Lakes, including Michigan, and a trend for above-average temperatures.
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By Sunday, clouds will begin to increase, and temperatures will also increase. Highs will be in the mid- to upper 80s, while lows will only fall to around 70 degrees at night. There is a low chance of a few showers developing at night.
A high-pressure system is dominating the weather conditions over the Great Lakes region. With mostly sunny to partly cloudy skies, highs will be in the lower 80s on Saturday afternoon across Southeast Michigan.
A high-pressure system, which is gliding from the Ohio Valley to the eastern Great Lakes, will help to clear skies Saturday night and Sunday. The air mass will also bring slightly drier air into the region.
The U.S. Coast Guard says a freighter in Lake Superior has hit something underwater and started taking on water.
School officials said harmful algal blooms are increasing due to increased precipitation, more powerful storms and warming Great Lakes waters.
A wooden steamship that went missing 112 years ago with 14 people presumed dead was found at the bottom of Lake Superior.
The objects are from a shipwreck located in Lake Michigan that represent a link to life back sometime in the 1800s.
In Michigan we have the Great Lakes, bumpy cake, Faygo pop and more Coney Island restaurants than you can count...but there is something we’ve always been missing -- a Buc-ee’s convenience store/gas station utopia.
Ice coverage for all the Great Lakes was at historical lows, with the coldest of the lakes — Lake Superior — having just 1% ice coverage as of Tuesday. The historical average is 40%.
An unusually warm winter has left the Great Lakes all but devoid of ice and sent scientists scrambling to understand the possible consequences as climate change accelerates.
There’s hardly any ice on Lake Michigan right now. Same goes for the other Great Lakes. Without ice on the lakes, weather patterns and regional commerce could look entirely different.
