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Skywatching Trifecta in Early October
Casual skywatchers have at least three celestial events to seek and to photograph in early October--aurorae, a comet, and an imminent...
Oct 9, 20232 min read
Climate Change Stinks
The brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB) has descended on the shores of Lake Michigan. After a sustained high wind out of the northwest, a...
Dec 16, 20211 min read
Return of Zebra Mussel Shells
As water levels recede on the Great Lakes, what trends in the cycle can we anticipate next? With high water we saw dunes scoured away,...
Aug 25, 20211 min read
"Watersprouts" on Lake Michigan
Budding waterspouts scurry along the Lake Michigan coastline on the leading edge of a storm front. From a calm start, the weather was...
Nov 2, 20191 min read
High Water on Lake Michigan
High water levels continue to ravage the Lake Michigan shoreline, as October 2019 closed with a gale. Where days earlier there had been...
Feb 21, 20161 min read
New Planet Landscape
Finally. Images beamed back from some bizarre landscape. The surface of Pluto? No, New Horizons did a Pluto flyby in 2015, but it did...
Jan 17, 20162 min read
Shipwrecked With Just a Pea Coat
Imagine you're on a ship that is laboring in heavy seas on a November night, when you're roused from your bunk by a foreboding noise at...
Jul 7, 20151 min read
#PlutoTime Images
New Buffalo, MI #PlutoTime New Buffalo, MI 2015 July 7, 9:29 p.m. EDT Venus is visible, with Jupiter nearby. South Bend, IN #PlutoTime...
Nov 10, 20133 min read
Storms of 10 November
Storms of 10 November Posted by admin on November 10, 2013 November is a storied month on the Great Lakes, as the wrath of severe weather...