Lake Ontario is like Lake Michigan, Lake Huron and Lake Erie with record warm surface water temperatures. Lake Ontario has an average surface water temperature of 51.9 degrees F now.

Because of its shallowness, Erie acts much like a river. A water droplet entering the upper end of the lake, at Toledo, takes only 2.6 years to exit into the Niagara River at the other end.

The water temperature on Lake Erie, for example, is about 50 degrees; on Lake Ontario, about 45 or 46 degrees. Air temperatures were between 30 and 34 degrees throughout the event. Advertisement ...

Of the five great lakes, Lake Erie has a beach for everyone. Touching the Canadian province of Ontario in the north and the U.S. states of Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York in the west ...

Before it was drained and turned into farmland in the late 1800s, the swamp extended from Toledo to nearly Fort Wayne, Indiana, and made up the lake’s shoreline from Toledo to Catawba Island. In other ...

An 18-year-old reeled in a "unicorn fish" while out on Lake Erie during a fishing tournament in Pennsylvania. Captain Joe Nemet of Nemesis Sport Fishing was there for the catch.

New York has 180 state parks, and this one on Lake Erie is Buffalo's first. Visit for plenty of water sport adventures, hiking, cycling, and lakefront dining.

In comparison, Lake Superior had 2.35% coverage as of Tuesday, with Lake Michigan at 4.38%, Lake Huron at 8.59% and Lake Ontario at 1.6%. Lake St. Clair, which feeds Lake Erie by way of the ...

The lake, which Michigan shares with Ontario, Canada, has 3,800 miles of shoreline and the world's largest freshwater island, Manitoulin Island, the National Museum of the Great Lakes notes.

The two bodies of water empty on near-opposite sides of North America: the Ohio River (via the Mississippi River) into the Gulf of Mexico, and Lake Erie (via the Niagara River, Lake Ontario and ...

Because of its shallowness, Erie acts much like a river. A water droplet entering the upper end of the lake, at Toledo, takes only 2.6 years to exit into the Niagara River at the other end.