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Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
February 12, 2018
They called it "Freezin' for a Reason." On Sunday, about 2,000 brave souls gathered at Ontario Beach Park to go jump in Lake Ontario. Kevin and Christie Reed of Leicester, Livingston County made a 45-minute drive to participate in Rochester's 18th Annual Polar Plunge for Special Olympics. Dressed asÃÂ ...
Buffalo News
February 10, 2018
And, Lake Ontario's average depth of 283 feet, is second in among the Great Lakes to only Lake Superior. Lake Ontario rarely gets over 20 percent covered in ice, data shows. Its water temperature off Rochester Friday was 34 degrees. Lake Erie's temperature reached 32 degrees at Buffalo Harbor on Jan.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
February 6, 2018
When flood waters overfilled the ponds near Lake Ontario last year, Greece officials deployed an armada of pumps to keep roadways near Edgemere Drive from being inundated. It was an exercise in futility. "We had a situation where the ponds and channel were higher than the roads, and rather thanÃÂ ...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
February 5, 2018
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, fearful of more flooding on the Lake Ontario shoreline, has asked federal officials to build more protective bulwarks. Officials at the Army Corps of Engineers are considering the request, a spokesman said Monday. Cuomo sent a letter to the Corps of Engineers Saturday asking theÃÂ ...
Syracuse.com
February 3, 2018
Chris Libonati | clibonati@syracuse.com. His Volkswagen was pulled from the ice Saturday night, the fire department said. The Oswego County Fire Department reminded people to "stay clear" of the water edge and ice near Lake Ontario and the Oswego River because fluctuations in the temperature haveÃÂ ...
NewYorkUpstate.com
January 18, 2018
Lake Ontario's water level is currently about 9 inches higher than the lake's level last year at this time. International Joint Commission officials who control the lake's level year-round aren't worried, despite flooding problems caused by high water levels during much of 2017 on the lake and the St. LawrenceÃÂ ...
NewYorkUpstate.com
January 18, 2018
Syracuse, N.Y. -- Thanks to a very cold winter so far, Lake Erie is nearly covered with ice. Deeper Lake Ontario, though, remains largely open. That means the lake effect snow machine that hammers Buffalo is quieting down, but the one that dumps snow on Syracuse from Lake Ontario is still ready for bigÃÂ ...
CNYcentral.com
January 17, 2018
East of Lake Ontario, localized lake effect snow continues through the course of tonight. The salt will be less effective as temperatures fall into the the upper single digits. I am expecting a few inches of snow to fall during the night. Up to a foot of snow is possible through Friday morning. To find out exactly how much newÃÂ ...
NewYorkUpstate.com
January 12, 2018
Bouche-Pillon, a French national, is among a small, but growing group of hearty, hardcore surfers on both sides of the U.S./Canadian border who take advantage the waves on Lake Ontario and other Great Lakes year-round. He works as an independent energy consultant and is a team member and GreatÃÂ ...
TheInertia.com
January 10, 2018
The iconic scene in The Shining when Wendy (Shelley Duvall) discovers the novel her husband Jack (Jack Nicholson) has been working on is just pages and pages of the words “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,” could easily be adapted for surfers. All work and no surf makes Jack a dull boy,ÃÂ ...
Toronto Star
January 5, 2018
But it would take a “very, very cold winter” to get total ice coverage on Lake Ontario or Lake Huron, Coulson said. “The thickest ice would be near the shoreline, because it forms the earliest,” Coulson said. “And then the ice builds out towards the middle of the lake where the water's deeper. And so it can takeÃÂ ...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
January 5, 2018
Even as Lake Ontario's waters hit a record high this spring, the neighbors on Newco Drive set to work saving their homes from the floods to come. The breakwalls that had protected the shoreline in the Hamlin community, a mishmash of boulders and concrete, had been battered by waves and overtopped.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
January 5, 2018
The hurricane, which had already killed 500 people in the Caribbean and the southeastern United States, passed over Lake Ontario and hit the Toronto area head-on. Hazel dropped up to 8 inches of rain on areas that already were water-logged from earlier storms. Rivers and creeks rose dramatically,ÃÂ ...
13WHAM-TV
December 30, 2017
Rochester, N.Y. (13WHAM) - Lake effect snow wreaked havoc on area roadways Saturday evening, especially in areas closer to Lake Ontario. The Lake Ontario State Parkway was among the harder hit areas, as several inches of snow piled on roads fast before plows were able to clear the snow. In towns, like Greece, theÃÂ ...
Lockport Union-Sun & Journal
December 30, 2017
As the last and lowest-lying Great Lake, Ontario's water levels are directly affected by outflows in the St. Lawrence. (And if outflows are too high, downriver communities like Montreal, which also saw devastating flooding this year, would be hit with even higher water levels.) But spokespersons for the IJC andÃÂ ...
CNYcentral.com
October 24, 2013
... -- In lake effect snow squalls, the weather can vary from locally heavy snow in narrow bands to clear skies just a few miles away. -- If you will be traveling across the region be prepared for rapid changes in road and visibility conditions. -- Know which county you live in, and where you are in relation to these heavy snowÃÂ ...
Lockport Union-Sun & Journal
December 31, 1999
Lake Ontario is currently 13 inches above its long-term average, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. What's more, the lake is 7 inches higher than at this time last year — a year that set record-high water levels after the spring thaw and heavy rain. That extra three feet of water on the lake leftÃÂ ...
Buffalo News
December 31, 1999
WASHINGTON — Rep. Chris Collins and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo may not agree on much, but they agree on this: the need for the Army Corps of Engineers to try to prevent flooding along Lake Ontario. Collins, a Clarence Republican who has been at odds with the Democratic governor for the past year, thisÃÂ ...
Buffalo News
December 31, 1999
“The increase in 2005 seems to coincide with pen rearing of salmon and improved survival,” said Jana Lantry, aquatic biologist for the Lake Ontario Unit of the DEC. “It could possibly be that we were starting to see more wild production of salmon naturally. Technology and the internet could also play a role,ÃÂ ...
WSYR
December 31, 1999
SYRACUSE (WSYR-TV) - - Some lake snow tonight east of the lake, in Syracuse by Tuesday morning. - Most significant snowfall will occur over the Tug Hill through early Tuesday. - Much of Tuesday will be pretty quiet and seasonably chilly. - A little rain and or a mix possible towards sunset Wednesday.
WGRZ-TV
December 31, 1999
OLCOTT, NY - The freezing along Lake Ontario in Olcott is a sight to see, and something that long-time residents of Olcott say they don't see every year. There are hills of ice along the shoreline right outside a row of waterfront homes on West Bluff in Olcott. Some people say they haven't seen this type ofÃÂ ...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
December 31, 1999
Lake Ontario's waters were rising fast one day this spring as Cheryl and Bob Stevens reluctantly moved the handcrafted oak furnishings and first-floor belongings in their Hamlin lake front home to higher ground. At the time, Cheryl was scheduled for major surgery and a potentially lengthy recovery. As floodÃÂ ...
ideastream
December 28, 2017
Flooding along Lake Ontario. A sunken ship. Eerie waves. A dissected Asian carp. All images from a memorable 2017 -- and part of Great Lakes Today reporting that ranged from Montreal to Duluth. Take a look at our favorite photos of the year. 1. Algae blooms turned western Lake Erie a sickly green.
U.S. News & World Report
December 28, 2017
The National Weather Service said the temperature was minus 32 degrees at 6 a.m. Thursday in Watertown, near Lake Ontario's eastern shore 65 miles (104 kilometers) north of Syracuse. Pre-dawn lows dipped to minus 18 along the St. Lawrence River on the Canadian border, where the wind chill made itÃÂ ...
CP24 Toronto's Breaking News
December 27, 2017
Power was restored to about 5,000 Scarborough residents after a brief outage in an area bounded by St. Clair Avenue, Birchmount Road, McCowan Road and Lake Ontario. The outage was treated as an “emergency priority call,” according to Toronto Hydro. Power was restored to all customers around 1ÃÂ ...
Newsday
December 27, 2017
BOYLSTON, N.Y. - Officials in communities near Lake Ontario's eastern end are asking residents to avoid driving on local roads so crews can remove up to 5 feet of snow that has fallen since Christmas Day. Heavy, lake-effect snow is being blamed for causing crashes and stranding vehicles in the OswegoÃÂ ...
WatertownDailyTimes.com
December 14, 2017
Residents who own shoreline property on Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River are being asked to take an International Joint Commission survey of how high water levels affected them this spring and summer. “If you have property on Lake Ontario or the St. Lawrence River and you suffered damage asÃÂ ...
Seattle Times
December 11, 2017
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — An international panel is asking businesses and property owners along Lake Ontario to complete an online survey about flood damage from record water levels this spring and summer. The International Joint Commission says the survey takes about 10 to 25 minutes.
NewYorkUpstate.com
December 11, 2017
Syracuse, N.Y. -- Counties on the Lake Ontario shoreline from Rochester to Watertown will be under a winter storm warning Tuesday and Wednesday for potentially heavy lake effect snow and high winds. As much as 14 inches of snow could fall in lake effect snow bands, and winds of 40 mph could makeÃÂ ...
Buffalo News
December 11, 2017
"Northwesterly wind typically affects the Southern Tier and areas south of Lake Ontario, Niagara County and Rochester. It will stay cold and snowy for at least the first half of the week." That will be a switch for Niagara County, where Niagara Sheriff's Department dispatcher Robin Zastrow said there wasÃÂ ...
Auburn Citizen (blog)
December 11, 2017
"We've seen first-hand some of the severe damages that have occurred around the Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River communities," said Wendy Leger, Canadian co-chair of the committee. "In some areas these impacts have been truly devastating, and we want to hear from shoreline property owners andÃÂ ...
TheSpec.com
December 9, 2017
Toronto police are asking for the public's help to identify a woman found dead with it, nearly 5 kilometres off the shore of Lake Ontario last summer. Police said foul play isn't suspected in the death of the woman, whose body was found on Aug. 28 near the Scarborough area. "All attempts to identify her haveÃÂ ...
CTV News
December 9, 2017
A travel advisory is in effect for communities along the Seaway and Lake Ontario including Canada's busiest highway . As we prepare for a weekend of travel, Environment Canada says bands of lake effect snow over Lake Ontario are shifting northward and will affect areas around Belleville to Prescott ...
WSYR
December 8, 2017
For most of central New York there will be a short period of lake effect snow showers courtesy Lake Eire that will move through this evening. Any accumulation will be light, an inch or less. More significant lake effect will continue to fall well north of Syracuse. A shift in winds to more of a westerly direction will ...
Buffalo News
December 7, 2017
The Niagara County Sheriff's Office is seeking the public's help to identify a body found floating five months ago in Lake Ontario. On June 13, the Sheriff's Office responded to a call to the U.S. Coast Guard Station at 1 Scott Ave., Youngstown, where the body of an unknown man was found. Authorities are ...
CNYcentral.com
December 6, 2017
--A combination of still relatively high lake water levels of Lake Ontario and a brisk southerly wind becoming a westerly wind Tuesday night into Wednesday morning of wind of up to 35 knots with higher gusts will create onshore waves of up to 10 to 15 feet. This will result in increased localized lakeshore flooding and ...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
December 1, 2017
What one expert calls the “Achilles' heel” of the controversial plan for regulating Lake Ontario water levels is revealing itself for the first time this fall. The lake is high — at a near-record high level for this time of year — because the new regulatory system, Plan 2014, dictates that it be that way. The water is ...
North Country Public Radio
November 30, 2017
Nov 30, 2017 — The grey sky seems a bit more ominous out here. With the winds whipping around and waves crashing on the break wall, Douglas Dobson walks around his home. His neighborhood sits on a narrow strip of land, with Lake Ontario to the north and several ponds to the south. Dobson hasÃÂ ...
Buffalo News
November 30, 2017
A state freshwater wetland will be disturbed, but some Lake Ontario shoreline residents could get some relief through a fill to protect a campgrounds, according to the state Department of Environmental Conservation. The DEC announced today it tentatively determined that 20,000 cubic feet of fill can be ...
WBFO
November 30, 2017
Like some officials, Dobson blames a new policy that regulates the level of Lake Ontario. These critics say the lake should have been lowered sooner – before big rains came last spring. Now it's still about a foot higher than normal. "Normally at this time of year, we have sandy beaches out here, you can ...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
November 16, 2017
A passing storm system will batter the the Lake Ontario shoreline yet again with waves large enough to erode unstable areas. The National Weather Service issued a lake shore flood warning for the entire shoreline, effective Thursday afternoon through early Friday morning. Forecasters said winds will shift ...
MPNnow.com
November 13, 2017
Frank Sciremammano of F-E-S Associates criticized a current plan addressing water level on Lake Ontario during a public hearing Thursday on Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Water Levels at Wayne High School in Ontario, Wayne County. The public hearing was held to probe this year's flooding alongÃÂ ...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
November 9, 2017
After a spring and summer of flooding and erosion along the Lake Ontario shoreline, water levels have subsided to near-normal levels. But concern about this year's flooding and the possibility it could occur again soon remains high. As evidence of that, 150 people turned out Thursday afternoon for a state ...
NewYorkUpstate.com
November 9, 2017
A wind advisory is in effect along Lake Ontario, where gusts could reach 50 mph. Lake effect snow. Winds blowing across lakes Erie and ...
Syracuse.com
November 8, 2017
They have been immersed in a vendetta with the International Joint Commission, claiming that the adoption of Plan 2014 for Lake Ontario, and ...
CNYcentral.com
November 8, 2017
--A combination of still relatively high lake water levels of Lake Ontario and a fairly strong west to northwesterly wind of 25-35 knots Thursday ...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
November 7, 2017
A panel of experts and advocates will testify Thursday at public hearing in Wayne County on the controversial subject of Lake Ontario water ...
Lockport Union-Sun & Journal
November 6, 2017
Judy Brounscheidel sits with the remains of her patio at the edge of Lake Ontario in Somerset. Rising lake levels have claimed close to 20 feet ...
NewYorkUpstate.com
November 4, 2017
Altmar, N.Y. -- The Salmon River Hatchery, the flagship of DEC's 12 state fish hatcheries, produces nearly all of the fish for Lake Ontario ...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
October 28, 2017
... treaty organization that oversees Lake Ontario water level regulation. ... many upstate New York residents of the Lake Ontario shoreline who ...
