Weather

Hurricane Ida appears to maintain its intensity and eyewall even after landfall in Louisana, thanks likely to a rare and unusual effect known as the 'brown ocean.'

It's not a retirement. It's more a passing of the torch, as WOOD-TV8 announced Portage native Ellen Bacca has been appointed Chief Meteorologist at the station, and long-time weather forecaster Bill Steffen is assuming a new title as Chief Meteorologist Emeritus, while cutting back his workload.

Did you walk outside this morning and think to yourself, "It's a little chilly"? If you did, that's because it is unseasonably cold, even for Michigan! Michigan is chalking up the coldest temperatures in the country right now.

A well-defined waterspout was captured on video yesterday (June 22) over the waters of Lake Michigan offshore of Leland, Michigan near the Leelenau Peninsula and the Manitou Islands.

Yes, there still is ice and winterlike conditions to be found across Michigan in late April 2021, particularly as this video shows from the shores of Lake Superior at Copper Harbor.

Western New Yorkers are totally tough when it comes to the frozen white stuff. So it's no surprise that the weirdest and wild weather phenomena to affect the Buffalo area are wintertime weather wonders.

Are you looking at the Pine Mountain Jump in Iron Mountain or Rainbow Bridge in Port Arthur, Texas? You tell us.

A series of ice volcanoes were found recently on Lake Superior off the north shore of the Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

The term ‘polar vortex” has become popular on social media over the past few years, but it’s not new. Folks in polar regions experience it every year.

So we take the average sunshine divide it by the average snowfall. Subtract the annual days of sun, carry the rainfall. Then multiply the sunniest months while factoring in the percentage of sunshine for the month of December...carry July