ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Gathering accurate atmospheric and water data over the open waters of Lake Ontario is no easy task. While satellite and radar tools provide useful insight, nothing compares to ...

“There is always the chance, though, that extreme events could pile up and cause high waters and can never rule out that possibility.” As we move through the spring months, Lake Ontario’s ...

On the early morning hours of February 18th, 1944, the “Getaway Gertie” a B-24 Liberator Bomber, disappeared somewhere over the waters of Lake Ontario. A massive search ensued for the plane ...

He added that the middle of Lake Ontario also has no ice in winter, avoiding another problem. The biggest technical challenge is that the huge barges typically used to install offshore wind at ...

New York environmentalists have long harbored a fixation on offshore wind, often pointing enviously to ... with a study showing the “feasibility” of installing turbines on Lake Ontario—at staggering ...

Humans have always had a close connection with Lake Ontario. For centuries ... caused a thick freeze in the lake’s nearshore waters. This enabled alternative forms of wintertime travel which ...

The big city and its neighboring communities hug the western end of Lake Ontario and are only a six ... favor cold deep waters and can dive to great depths to capture food. Their ranks include ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Cold air will continue to move across the relatively warm surface waters of Lake Ontario generating lake-effect snow east and east-southeast of the lake through Sunday night.