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Ice boulders formed on the Lake Michigan shore on Sunday, February 16, as northern winds caused blowing snow. Footage from Nate’s Dronography shows chunks of ice on the Lake Michigan shore in Saint ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A woman was seriously injured after a vehicle crashed into the water in Lake Michigan downtown Saturday, Chicago fire officials said. The crash happened between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m ...

The extreme cold is making for a fascinating look on Grand Traverse Bay at Traverse City, Michigan. Grand Traverse Bay is a bay on Lake Michigan. The large temperature difference between still ...

Subzero temperatures, high winds and ice-free Great Lakes combined this past week to increase lake effect snow totals across much of Michigan, the National Weather Service said. Some locations in ...

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker jokingly announced that the name of Lake Michigan had been changed to "Lake Illinois," poking fun at President Donald Trump's Gulf of America. Pritzker posted a video ...

Tickets are on sale and can be purchased HERE. Summerfest is an independent festival which takes place at a 75-acre park along Lake Michigan. “As an independent music festival, Summerfest ...

Like a frozen mermaid, massive shelf ice is luring people to the edge of Lake Michigan. It’s an eerie, bizarre transformation for shoreline waters that, just four months ago, saw adolescent toes ...

Michigan is so frigid right now, it even looks cold from space. The National Weather Service in Marquette posted a NASA satellite image of the state Tuesday showing bands of cold air and lake ...

Now, to add to this age-old confusion, it has emerged that a similarly enigmatic stone structure has been found beneath the ...

In 2002, Lake Michigan had 12.4% coverage. In 2012, Lake Huron had 22.8% coverage. In 1998, Lake Erie had 5.4% coverage. In 2012, Lake Ontario had 1.9% coverage.

The lake was always known for its pristine waters, but in 2013 scientists published research on the lake’s clarity, revealing that, like pure water, it had a visibility of between 70 and 80 ...