Lake Erie Climatology

(Data for graphs collected from NDBC Buoy 45005 located in Lake Erie's central basin)

Click here for a wind rose showing the annual distribution of wind speeds and direction at Cleveland-Hopkins Airport.  
Click here for a chart of daily maximum, average and minimum Lake Erie surface temperature (collected by NWS Buffalo). Click here to obtain the Lake Erie water temperature for a particular day (provided by NWS Buffalo).