Posted on 04/06/2021 10:18:20 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
When a major city such as Toronto experiences above average precipitation during a season, it doesn't necessarily mean water levels in a surrounding lake will also be higher than usual.
However, when we look at the Great Lakes basin as a whole, this will have more of an effect on lake levels.
Case in point is Lake Ontario. While Toronto received a slightly above normal snowfall amount this winter, with below normal rainfall, the entire basin saw below average precipitation. This helped to keep water levels at bay, especially compared to prior years.
In fact, Lake Ontario is forecast to be 0.58 metres below average by the end of April -- a shortage size equivalent to 1.35 million Olympic-based swimming pools.
Another good comparison is lakes Erie and Huron, expected to see water levels well above average, while the nearby regions only saw about 50-65 per cent of their average snowfall in the winter months.
Although lakes Erie and Huron have not dropped as quickly as Ontario, their levels are lower than prior years, meaning the lakeshores won’t flood as easily or frequently this year. It goes without saying, though, that the shorelines are not out of the woods, yet, in respect to shoreline flooding.
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Funny they don't mention climate change or global warming. I think they're being more cautions and letting people fill in the blanks since people are tired of all the claims.
It is a fact that all of the Great Lakes go thru high and low years.
Sea level is rising also I thought.
The Great Lakes are connected to the Atlantic Ocean aren’t they?
Trump’s fault
Hyperbole and proper word choice to illicit the greatest emotive response to an otherwise dull headline is an entire sub-discipline of modern journalism.
The Great Lakes are primarily filled by warm wet precipitation coming up from the south. Cold dry precipitation from the north dries out the lakes.
OMG! We’re all going to die!😏
The propaganda has devolved to "Do you have hemorrhoids? Blame climate change!"
The "science" journalists are pretty unrelenting in their propaganda. Almost every online signs article makes a small mention of global warming and climate change, even if the main topic isn't really related and they have to work hard to jimmy it in.
Put the FBI on it. They will find them.
It’s the Russians I tell ya. Stealing our water.
How many loonies per liter is it going to cost canada taxpayers to fix this?
I was told in school in the 90s that Lake Michigan and the other Great Lakes would never recover from their record lows and to get use to expanded beaches.
In the same way as any other lake is: through rivers. Superior is 600 ft asl, Huron and Michigan are ~580 ft, Erie is 577 ft, and Ontario is 480 or so.
After Ontario, there is the Saint Lawrence river that carries the water to the sea.
I was thinking the same. I remember a few years ago Erie (maybe others) had significant flooding, docks floating off pilings, etc.
They spill into it quite spectacularly via Niagara Falls and more gradually via the St. Lawrence Seaway.
The prior years 2019 then 2020 saw record high water levels........This is a stupid article
How many football fields are a million Olympic sized swimming pools.
[Austin Powers voice] One million pools.
Now do it again using tablespoons.
Don’t look at me. I didn’t take it.
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