Lake Erie

The Lake Erie Ice Boom prevents or reduces the amount of ice floating down the Niagara River to reduce ice blockages, flooding, damage to shoreline property and ice damage to the power plant intakes near Niagara Falls.

It's another sign that winter is almost here. The Ice Boom is going in!

A report was received today of a Kite Surfer in distress at Hamburg Beach and unfortunately did not survive.

I think its safe to say, we have all had those days where nothing seems to be going right, and the thought of just going back to bed crosses our mind. This may have been the case for one Buffalo man after a serious misfortune on Lake Erie...

Excessive rains are blamed as one of the main reasons why 990,000 gallons of waste water leaked into Lake Erie early yesterday.

Even during a good day like we had on Wednesday, accidents can happen.

The lake machine is going to get a practice run for the next 24 hours around western New York. The bands that we typically see bring us snow, will bring rain.

The Great Lakes are colder this year than normal. Does this mean that winter is going to be worse for us?

This is the big one! Fishermen and women from around the country and Canada will take part in the annual Sunset Bay Walleye Shootout!

The Coast Guard is still looking for two kayakers from Ohio after the pair went missing Tuesday night.
The kayakers, who have been identified as 27-year-old Nicole Launert and 30-year-old Mike Smith, were last seen at their boat launch in Lorain, Ohio around 6:30 pm...

With the Lake Effect Snow doing it's think in WNY, major news outlets and meteorologists have made their way to the area to cover the story. Reed Timmer from AccuWeather caught this water spout from the 90 in Dunkirk yesterday! Pretty cool!
Weather does some crazy things...

Two Great Lakes border New York. Even though Michigan gets the credit for being the Great Lakes State, New York has some amazingly scenic views of the Great Lakes to offer any traveler. Here are 5 great drives to see the Lake Erie and Lake Ontario shorelines in the Empire State...