Lake Erie | Audacy

Great Lakes region preparing for bad weather as lake-effect snowfall ingredients begin mixing “Buffalo is really the king of lake-effect. They get the band coming off Lake Erie. It’s shallow and relatively warm at the first part of winter.”

November 26, 2025
New York State requires new boater safety course The eight-hour course can be done in person or online

June 16, 2025
Erie County Legislature goes on record in opposition to Lake Erie wind turbines

April 25, 2025
Second freighter this year gets stuck in ice off Buffalo American Mariner awaiting an escort to open water

April 1, 2025
Lake Erie's Ice Boom will remain past Apr. 1st deadline "The earliest it ever has come out is late February, and the latest that the ice boom was ever removed is sometime in May"

March 24, 2025
Ice fishing risky business this time of year The Erie County Sheriff's Office advises fishermen to wait until next year for ice fishing

March 18, 2025
Is the end of Western New York's ice fishing season around the corner? "Once it starts to get some water on top of the ice, even though there might be some thickness there, the quality of the ice goes down quite a bit"

March 4, 2025
Free at last! Manitoulin under own power heading away from Buffalo, following icebreaking vessels The vessel now returns to Canada after being stuck in the waters of Lake Erie

January 25, 2025
WATCH: Efforts to free the Manitoulin from the Lake Erie ice will extend to 4th day “We just haven’t had a bad winter in quite a while. So now that we’ve had one and people haven’t seen this for a bit, they’re like ‘what’s going on?’”

January 24, 2025
WATCH: Freighter 'Manitoulin' stuck in growing Lake Erie ice field off Buffalo "We are up to 80% ice cover on Lake Erie"

January 23, 2025