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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

Lake Erie, which forms much of Ohio’s north coast, is slightly larger. But Erie averages only 62 feet deep, while the average depth of Ontario is 283 feet. The water volume of three Lake Eries ...

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.