HIGH WIND WARNING issued for parts of WNY today. Southern Erie County, and Chautauqua County, especially near the Lake Erie ...

Activists who oppose the idea of electricity-generating wind turbines off the shore of Lake Erie have been urging local governments in Western New York to fight such projects as well. They have ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Could the once-ambitious plan to install wind turbines on Lake Erie be resurrected? It’s possible, local wind power advocates believe, now that a Maryland company called ...

Chautauqua and Erie counties in New York state are solidly against any plan that puts the towers into the waters. Over the last three months, members of the Citizens Against Wind Turbines in Lake Erie ...

Lake Erie's ice coverage ... A truly significant winter': How close is Erie to setting a snowfall record this season? "Assume that the ice is thin and any wind can make the ice move around ...

morning show Monday. He also pointed out the western basin of Lake Erie is now ice free. “That’s because our wind, again, is going to be out of the southwest today," Wintz said. "So we may see ...

It's a rarity that Lake Erie totally ices over. Wind is a major fact, as it keeps the ice moving and "chopped up" so to speak. At the same time, we've never had a season with zero ice.

Lake Erie is the shallowest of the Great Lakes and swings in air temperature can influence ice coverage “more rapidly than other lakes,” said James Kessler, physical scientist with the Great ...

Activists who oppose the idea of electricity-generating wind turbines off the shore of Lake Erie have been urging local governments in Western New York to fight such projects, as well. They have ...