Unfortunately, the buoys on Lake Mendota, Sparkling Lake, and Trout Lake are temporairly off-line. These will be available again spring 2025.
In the meantime, please go to https://metobs.ssec.wisc.edu/mendota/buoy/ for Lake Mendota conditions.
All of the North Temperate Lakes (NTL) Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) lakes (including the 3 above) are monitored year round. You can see data on all 11 lakes at https://lter.limnology.wisc.edu/core-study-lakes/.
NTL-LTER is a collaborative, interdisciplinary program studying lakes in the landscape. The overarching goal of this program is to understand how biophysical setting, climate, and changing land use and cover interact to shape lake characteristics and dynamics over time (past, present, future).