Meteorology & Weather Data

Precipitation, air temperature, wind speed, and other weather data.

Meteorological Data (contact: Greg Lang) A network of eight real-time meteorological stations at exposed coastal sites around southern Lake Michigan (Chicago, Milwaukee, Kenosha, South Haven, Muskegon, Michigan City), Lake Huron (Alpena), and Lake Erie (Toledo Light #2). Information includes: air temperature, wind speed, barometric pressure, and other weather data. In addition, five sites include a live webcam.

Great Lakes Monthly Hydrologic Data (T. Hunter) NOAA Technical Memorandum TM-083 (1994). Hydrologic data: overlake precipitation, runoff, lake evaporation, net basin supplies, connecting channel flows, diversion flows, beginning of month lake levels, and changes in storage.

Great Lakes Precipitation Data (contact: C. Sellinger).P_*_DAT files contain the monthly precipitation data for each station in that state. *-HST files contain the station history information extracted from the WB 530-1 forms by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). These data show the station number, latitude, longitude, elevation, station name, and period of record for each station location. These are ZIPPED files, with one file for each state.

Last updated: 2006-05-18 mbl