Reading all the hate in my mail this week, you’d think I’d drained Lake Erie. The object of the derision is the new digital version of The Plain Dealer, which rolled out this week.

In early May, NOAA released its first western Lake Erie algal bloom forecast of the season. Based on weather conditions from the past several weeks, an updated forecast was issued on Thursday, May 23.

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 ...

Water samples taken from western Lake Erie on April 28 by NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab (GLERL), is the earliest the toxin has been detected in Lake Erie.

The National Weather Service reports that Lake Erie is roughly 70% frozen over. Ice thickness varies between 2 and 12 inches depending on location.

Hey Ray: Surfing on Lake Erie 03:32. ERIE, Pa. (KDKA) - One thing I love is people who use the weather, and there are some people who really use the weather.. People like Jim Samuels in Erie.

Seatemperature.org says the average temperature of Lake Erie is 49.8 degrees Fahrenheit in May. It rises to 66 in June and 75.9 in July before topping out at about 76 degrees in August. in ...

Near the Erie area, the lake varies between 2 to 6 inches thick, according to the National Weather Service. Further west toward the Ohio portion of the lake, the thickness of the ice was recorded ...