A real-time situational view of the Great Lakes as they affect Wisconsin: water levels and trends for Lakes Superior and Wisconsin, NOAA buoy temperatures, EPA beach-water-quality advisories, AIS vessel traffic, and harmful-algal-bloom advisories.
The Great Lakes are Wisconsin's defining environmental, economic, and recreational asset — conditions on them shift by the hour. This page consolidates the public-sector data feeds that matter most: NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab (GLERL) water-temperature and ice-cover datasets, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) monthly water-level records compared to long-term averages, NOAA CO-OPS real-time tide and meteorological buoys, EPA BEACON beach-water-quality advisories, and AIS vessel-tracking for commercial shipping moving through the Great Lakes system.
The Great Lakes section on the Wisconsin Gateway homepage shows a curated snapshot — current lake levels, top beach advisories, ships currently in Wisconsin waters. This page expands every panel with deeper historical context, methodology notes, and links back to each upstream source so that journalists, researchers, harbormasters, and Great-Lakes-state residents can verify and dig deeper. Data refreshes continuously throughout the day; nothing on this page is older than 60 minutes during business hours.
National Weather Service (NWS), FEMA, NOAA, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), USGS, EPA AirNow, FAA, state DOT (511 incidents), state DNR / parks, state corrections, state environmental agency, USDA NASS, NIFC, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED), and CME Group commodity futures.
Emergency & Weather, Transport (roads, airports, transit, border crossings), Environment & Great Lakes (water levels, beaches, PFAS, drinking water, sewer overflows, harmful algal blooms), News (top, crime, health, auto, sports, technology, economy), Infrastructure (power grid, EV charging, PFAS contamination, water systems), Public Health, Economy & Markets, Auto Industry, Sports, Events & Legislature, Education, Tourism, and Community.
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Built for residents, journalists, and local businesses who need an at-a-glance picture of what's happening across the state right now.
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Events and near-term programs that may affect your plans this week.
Public hearings, council and commission meetings, planning sessions, scheduled road closures, and water-system work — pulled from real city/county calendar feeds.
One compact panel replaces the legacy 18 slow-moving panels.
Live commodity futures + USDA Wisconsin wholesale crop prices, refreshed every few minutes during trading hours.
Scores, schedules, and headlines for the Detroit Lions, Tigers, Red Wings, Pistons, MSU Spartans, and U-M Wolverines — Wisconsin's six pro and college teams.
Slower-moving and specialized data lives on its own pages — updated monthly to yearly.
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Long-running environmental + health datasets, organized into 7 thematic hubs. Each card opens a hub page with the underlying datasets as tabs.
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