Water levels on Lake Michigan, Huron a foot higher than last year

The Bay City Times ^ | Monday May 18, 2009, 12:00 PM | The Bay City Times

[GILTN1stborn]

Lakes Michigan and Huron have risen 12 inches compared to this time last year.

The lakes, which are connected by the Straits of Mackinac, also are 7 inches higher than a month ago, on April 15, according to the latest forecast from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Michigan-Huron is projected to rise 3 more inches during the next month, along with Lake Superior, government data shows.

The higher water levels are attributed to a storm system that brought showers and thunderstorms to much of the Great Lakes basin on Wednesday and Thursday.

Lakes Michigan and Huron are forecast to remain at or above last year's levels for the near future, along with Lake Erie, Corps officials say

[GILTN1stborn]

Global warming? Must be from all those Michigan glaciers melting this year.

[muawiyah]

The recent DISCOVER series about the way the Great Lakes were formed says Global Warming is reducing the GL volumes so fast they could be dry bottoms in a decade.

Obviously something is amiss here.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Impossible!!!

;-)

[P-Marlowe]

Global warming? Must be from all those Michigan glaciers melting this year.

The lakes are there because the glaciers melted. I hear that was actually before there were 18 wheel trucks and SUV's.

[ChicagahAl]

"The higher water levels are attributed to a storm system that brought showers and thunderstorms"

Global Storming?

[gigster]

I plowed ALOT of snow here this past winter.

[boomop1]

Bush’s fault.

[GILTN1stborn]

Well, it was so cold there last winter I was sure there were new glaciers. Maybe the lake levels are higher because the vacuum created by everyone leaving the state sucked water from somewhere else into the lakes.

[pissant]

Record snow?

[blu]

Ahh...Michigan my Michigan! Not only are we drowning in debt, now we'll be drowned by our own Great Lakes:)

Actually, this is good news for tourists (fudgies) and fish. Of course, women and children (without life jackets) will be harmed most. Now that bimbo in Lansing will start taxing us based on water volume.

[autumnraine]

Here in Georgia, the drought was so bad my neighbors lake turned into a dust bin.

It is now completely full even though two years ago the ‘experts’ said it would take 10 years to recover.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Nah, its the secret underground channels from beneath the Greenland glaciers that direct the water straight to the Great Lakes.

[dalereed]

Is this supposed to be good or bad?

[rintense]

Lake levels all around Michigan had been low up until last year. A few years ago, quite a few docked boats had to get new moorings farther out in the water since the levels were so low. They even had to dredge out parts of Lake Macatawa. But, it happens. Its cyclical. Completely depends on the amount of snow fall and spring rain we get.

Now lake levels are back to within normal range- and waterfront home owners are complaining they've lost beach frontage. Idiots.

[Inyo-Mono]

Anyone who spends any length of time in the great outdoors will tell you that changes in lake levels over the years, and decades, are perfectly normal depending on the snow pack. Pasty reporters sitting behind urban news desk do not know this basic fact.

[GILTN1stborn]

It is good. The water levels for the last few years were way low. Since it is a good thing Bush can’t be responsible. Must be BHO that saved the lakes, or could it have been the wonderful governor?