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An intense band of lake-effect snow set up Thursday morning over the Interstate 90 corridor off the shores of Lake Erie between Erie, Pennsylvania and Hamburg, New York, causing dangerous driving ...
Lake Erie (/ ˈ ɪr i / EER-ee) is the fourth-largest lake by surface area of the five Great Lakes in North America and the eleventh-largest globally. [6] [10] It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes [11] [12] and also has the shortest average water residence time. At its deepest point, Lake Erie is 210 ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. – The fierce lake-effect snowstorm is nearing its end across the Great Lakes. Heavy snow continues to pummel areas east of lakes Erie and Ontario, but relief is on the horizon as ...
Dunkirk lies on the southeastern shore of Lake Erie and is 45 miles (72 km) southwest of Buffalo. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has an area of 4.6 square miles (11.8 km 2 ), of which 4.5 square miles (11.7 km 2 ) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km 2 ), or 1.10%, is water.
The Lake Erie Islands are geologically part of the Silurian Columbus Limestone. When the Pleistocene ice sheets carved out the basin of modern-day Lake Erie, these hard rocks proved more resistant to erosion than the shales in the east, and as a result, Lake Erie's western end is much shallower than the basins in the east, so that the islands ...
Lake Erie - Location: Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Ontario - Area: 9,910 square miles. Lake Erie's name comes from the Iroquois word erielhonan, or long tail, referring to the lake's ...
Erie might not be a surfer's Mecca like Huntington Beach, California, or North Shore, Hawaii, but the conditions on Lake Erie are good enough at times to entice surfers from throughout the area.
Maumee Bay State Park is a 1,336-acre (541 ha) public recreation area located on the shores of Lake Erie, five miles east of Toledo, in Jerusalem Township, Lucas County, Ohio, United States. Major features of the state park include a lodge and conference center, cottages, camping facilities, golf course, nature center, and two-mile-long ...