Lake Ontario
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Smallest and lowest in elevation of the Great Lakes.
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In 1860 a flock 1 mile wide and 300 miles long passed over Fort Mississauga on Lake Ontario.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
Rochester is a small city of 207,000 on Lake Ontario in northern New York, surrounded by rural areas.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 15, 2025
Lakeshore Boulevard, which runs along Lake Ontario, was also flooded and closed, police said, and Toronto Fire services said it rescued 14 people from flooding on the highway.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 17, 2024
Several flights were also delayed or cancelled out of Billy Bishop Airport, on the Toronto Islands in Lake Ontario.
From BBC • Jul. 16, 2024
The weather lady says it’s a lake-effect storm—the wind from Canada sucks up water from Lake Ontario, runs it through the freeze machine, and dumps it on Syracuse.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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