Roger Hill's Lake Champlain Marine Forecast...Moon Phase

central Lake Champlain looking southwest from Burlington Vermont and high peaks across in the Adirondacks looking northwest from UVM Burlington at the lake and across to the northern sloping Adirondacks... Colchester's Malletts Bay Mallets Bay Colchester looks east
Looking northeast from Keeler Bay South Hero central Lake Champlain looking east from Westport New York toward Addison county Vermont

Current Temperatures click for previous observations Plattsburg Temperature click for previous observationsBurlington Temperature

Friday May 9th Headline --- Cool northerly flow with weather systems pass well south through early next week for some good boating!

The Lake Champlain lake level was at 99.70 feet at 8 AM in Burlington and slowly falling. Water temperature 44 degrees fluctuating but mostly upward.

Today: North winds 5 to 15 kts. Waves up to about a foot.

Tonight: North winds 5 to occasionally 20 kts Waves 1 to occasionally 2 ft broad part of the lake.

Tomorrow: Light north winds increasing to 10 to 20 kts across the borad part of the lake. Waves building 1 to 2 ft.

The outlook for Saturday– Generally light north winds and waves.

Also see New 4KM WRF Lake modeling hour by hour (use browser zoom level for best results)

Reading the Sky

Northern Lake Champlain looking west  from Phillipsburg Quebec


looks east from NewYork

looking east

looking west

looks west from Vermont


This forecast will updated each weekday morning 7 to 8 AM. This forecast is aired over Classic Vermont WCVT 101.7 FM

Lake level... and surface water temperature

USGS Gage at Burlington VT (near real-time)

Site location USGS in Burlington

Other Current Lake Champlain Readings

USGS Gage at Rouse's Pt NY (near real-time)

USGS Gage north of Whitehall NY (near real-time)

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Colchester Reef Past Hour Data
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Diamond Island Past Hour Data

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