LOUD Booms in the Finger Lakes

04/17/2026

one year anniversary of starting this page!

04/10/2026

03/31/2026

Lots of activity!

12/24/2025

Just some fireworks in Lodi nothing to be alarmed about.

12/23/2025

GENEVA — Below the surface, Seneca Lake’s bed is a lunar landscape, with large pockmarks of unknown origin. Chloride levels are mysteriously high. And, most famously, occasional unexplained booming sounds

12/02/2025

Good afternoon! Winter Storm Watches have been replaced with Winter Weather Advisories for the majority of the area, except for Sullivan County, NY where a Winter Storm Warning is in effect. This will be a quick-moving system, with the heaviest snow between 7am and 2pm Tuesday.

For a location-specific forecast, please visit weather.gov/bgm and enter your location into the search box.

11/26/2025

Thunderstorm with some nice booms! Now.

11/03/2025

For centuries, something beneath Seneca Lake in upstate New York has been making a very loud, very disturbing noise. Locals called it the “Seneca Guns,” a cannon-like boom that erupted without warning and rolled across the water like distant thunder. The Seneca people once said it was the voice of an angry spirit. Early settlers blamed ghostly soldiers still fighting the Revolution. James Fenimore Cooper turned it into myth in his 1850 story The Lake Guns. Every few years, the lake would roar again, then fall silent, as if taunting anyone who tried to explain it.

Now, after hundreds of years and a stack of wild theories, scientists finally have an answer. According to The New York Times, a joint research team from the State University of New York and Cornell University traced the mysterious sound to methane gas erupting from beneath the lakebed. Pressure builds underground for years until it bursts through the sediment, sending a giant bubble to the surface. When that bubble explodes into the air, it triggers a shockwave that sounds like a literal cannon blast.

Dive deeper at the link in comments.

10/19/2025

Loud booms have been detected in your area!

09/07/2025

No booms, but cold instead.

Another early preview of fall with the low temperatures tonight (9/7 into 9/8 AM).