Important weather conditions and water conditions are
available from a large network of buoys on the Great Lakes. You can get
the info with just a quick text. Unlike some of your kids, if you text a
buoy it will always text you right back. There are 57 buoys across all of the Great Lakes. The network of buoys is deployed and maintained by the Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS), NOAA, universities and LimnoTech.
Location of the buoys on the Great Lakes
Each buoy is identified with a five digit identifier number. For
example, the Ludington, MI buoy is 45024. The buoy numbers are in the
far left columnhere.
GLOS added seven new phone numbers to handle our texts for buoy info.
Text the ID number of the buoy to (734) 201-0750. You will immediately
get a text back with wind speed and direction, air and surface water
temperature and wave height.
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