MICHIGAN GOVERNMENT
Great Lakes Region, Environment, and Weather

Great Lakes Region

• Deposition of Air Pollutants to the Great Waters (EPA)
  • Effects of air pollution on water pollution, including the Great Lakes
  • Report issued every three years

• Great Lakes Information Network
  • Extensive links to economic, environment, health, trade, tourism and weather information for the Great Lake States and Provinces

• Great Lakes National Program Office (EPA)
  • Reports, photographs, statistics, and EPA programs on the Great Lakes environment, biodiversity, and contaminants
  • Great Lakes Atlas
    • Joint U.S.-Canadian publication covering the history, people, biodiversity, contaminants, and management of the Great Lakes
  • Human Health, The Effect of Great Lakes Contaminants
    • Report to Congress on maternal and child health in the Great Lakes border states

• International Joint Commission
  • Organization resolving water boundary disputes between the United States and Canada
  • Web site includes numerous reports, press releases, and newsletter articles on environmental concerns
  • List of basins, provinces, and states which are involved

• Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
  • Press releases, management plan
  • Description of agency and district offices
  • Phone numbers to call for emergency responses
  • A list of hazardous waste facilities is available via browser or spreadsheet format
  • Underground storage tank facilities, open/leaking and closed, can be searched by city, county, company or address or downloaded
  • Michigan Environmental Code
    • Searchable text of the Natural Resource and Environmental Protection Act of 1994
    • Environmental executive orders and current environmental issues

• Michigan Department of Natural Resources
  • Description and history of the department
  • Directory of offices
  • Management Plan
  • DNR calendar of events

• Michigan Environmental Science Board
  • Full text of MESB reports (e.g. effects of mercury, chlorine, lead on the environment)
  • Information about the Board

Weather

• Historical Weather Data Base (Washington Post)
  • 21 weather variables for 2000 cities in the world
  • Includes monthly average and record temperatures, rainfall, snowfall, and sunshine
• Local Climatological Data (NCDC)
  • Monthly reports since 1996 from weather stations throughout the country
  • First identify the city and its airport abbreviation before accessing the data
  • Reports include daily minimum and maximum temperatures, wind, precipitation, heating and cooling degree days, sunrise and sunset
  • Additional weather observations at three-hour intervals
  • Reports in Adobe Acrobat only
• Michigan Climatology (Mich. Dept. of Agriculture/MSU)
  • Weather conditions and forecasts updated hourly
  • Weather data, 1951-80, by county and weather station
• Midwestern Climate Center (UIUC)
  • Average monthly rainfall, snowfall, heating and cooling degree days for individual weather stations within the Midwest
  • States covered: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Wisconsin plus New York and Pennsylvania
  • Additional Great Lakes basin supply data
  • Subscription and individualized weather data services for a fee
• Weather Underground (UMich)
  • Weather information arranged by state and weather station
  • Includes current conditions, forecasts, warnings, and maps
• Weather Watch (WDIV)
  • Current Michigan weather forecasts, updated hourly
  • Ten-day forecasts for the nation
  • Links to weather maps, movies, and related weather sites
• Weekly Crop-Weather State Reports
  • Crop progress and days suitable for field work
  • Average temperature for weather stations within a state for the current week
  • Precipitation for the past few weeks

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Grace York, Coordinator, Documents Center
Denise Schoene, Documents Center, April 2004
The University of Michigan Library
Graphics by Sherry Piontek and Barbara Perles

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