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  2. Great Lakes - Wikipedia

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    A map of the Great Lakes Basin showing the five sub-basins. Left to right they are: Superior (magenta); Michigan (cyan); Huron (green); Erie (yellow); Ontario (red). Though the five lakes lie in separate basins, they form a single, naturally interconnected body of fresh water, within the Great Lakes Basin. As a chain of lakes and rivers, they ...

  3. Georgian Bay - Wikipedia

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    Georgian Bay has been known by several names. To the Ojibwe, it is known as "Spirit Lake".To the Huron-Wendat, it is known as Lake Attigouatan. Samuel de Champlain, the first European to explore and map the area in 1615–1616, called it "La Mer douce" (the sweet/calm/fresh sea), which was a reference to the bay's freshwater. [1]

  4. Rainy Lake - Wikipedia

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    The earliest documentation of the lake's name is "Tekamamiwen" (shown in French transliterated as "Lac de Tecamamiouen" on the Ochagach map (c. 1728). [6] The name was represented in various spellings: as "Lac Tacamamioüer" on the 1739 de l'Isle map, as "Lake Tecamaniouen" on the 1757 Mitchell Map, and as "Lake Tekamamigovouen" on the Thomas Jefferys 1762 Map of Canada).

  5. 5-plus feet of snow and counting: More snow is coming to the ...

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    “During lake-effect snow, the weather can vary from bands of locally heavy snow with greatly reduced visibilities to dry conditions just a few miles away,” the National Weather Service in ...

  6. Lake effect snow slams Great Lakes, 7 states from Wisconsin ...

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    Lake effect snow is slamming the Great Lakes, with seven states from Wisconsin to New York under snow alerts on Monday. So far, snow totals have reached 65 inches in Barnes Corners, New York; 30 ...

  7. Lake Huron - Wikipedia

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    In the winter of 1964, Lakes Michigan and Huron reached their lowest level at 1.38 feet (42 cm) below datum. [16] As with the high-water records, monthly low-water records were set each month from February 1964 through January 1965. During this twelve-month period, water levels ranged from 1.38 to 0.71 feet (42–22 cm) below Chart Datum. [16]

  8. Great Lakes Basin - Wikipedia

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    The Great Lakes Basin consists of the Great Lakes and the surrounding lands of the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin in the United States, and the province of Ontario in Canada, whose direct surface runoff and watersheds form a large drainage basin that feeds into the lakes.

  9. Mostly rain along Lake Michigan while central and western ...

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    Meteorologist Marc Gehring is tracking rain through Lake Milwaukee counties with temperatures being "just warm enough for rain." Mostly rain along Lake Michigan while central and western Wisconsin ...