Rising Lake Michigan ‘unprecedented’

WOODTV ^ | 1-21-15 | Casey Jones

[Elsiejay]

Global warming; isn’t it obvious?? It causes water to expand.

[TigersEye]

“In January 2013, Lake Michigan hit its lowest water mark ever.”

Ever?

How long have they been tracking the water level?

Since 1860

Apparently 'ever' isn't as long a time as we all thought.

[joe fonebone]

i have lived in michigan most of my life...

the lake levels rise..

the lake levels fall..

your chart is real nice, but the lakes usually run on 15 year cycles..

the past 2 years we have had rains of biblical proportions ( we have seen 4 inches fall in just over an hour)..

so the lakes rise..

it is as it is and as it always has been..

[spokeshave]

Good summary......and....

..... Glaciers forming in Scotland,...Jerusalem under lock down couple weeks ago because of iced up roads.....and drone submarine detects extreme thickness of ice under Antarctica' .....extreme winter in UK expected to last till May...

Don't forget vegetation growth in desert Australia and Africa regions because of HIGH CO2 levels.

BTW a real scientist in India just released a report claiming that the solar activity rate as measured by sunspots has dropped off faster over the past two cycles then at any time over the past 10,000 years.

Because the Sun's magnetic field is in decline:

[Paul46360]

Born and raised in GR now living in NW IN. I know all too well that the lake has a cycle. Yet it seems to be the thing the tree huggers point to to explain their climate BS.
PLUS the total ice coverage of the lakes last winter added in less evaporation.

[Wuli]

Let me get this straight.

Lake Michigan’s water level has been below the long term average for a number of years, and now that it appears the water level (after all these years) could go above the long term norm, and that is supposed to be weird, abnormal and “unprecedented”. No, what would be “unprecedented” would be if the average never recovered from many years of low lake levels; and the way an average would do that would be with some years above the long term average to balance against all the years below the long term average.

[The Cajun]

Definite “oh crap” charts there.

[okie01]

So where’s the water coming from?

According to the article, it's a combination of a.) extra water, from the higher levels of snowfall in the watershed, coupled with b.) restricted evaporation from the lake surface due to ice cover.

Makes sense. And what it ain't is "global warming".

[Intolerant in NJ]

The water goes up, the mater goes down......

[VideoDoctor]

So where’s the water coming from?

Could it be that too many people are pi$$ing into Lake Michigan? /s

[ez]

I think it’s the rising sea levels running backward up the St Lawrence River.

Oh yeah? Right over the top of Niagara Falls?

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Bush. George Bush!

I actually blame the rising waters in our inland, freshwater lakes on rising salt-water oceans and seas. At least that is what King Canute Obama told us. Ask Scientist Obama and Biden how those ocean waters reach Michigan, etc. They’re sure to know how it works.

Personally I blame it on the rising deer herds who piss in and around the lakes. Remember that old book, “Yellow Streams” by I. P. Daily? Does a deer piss in the woods and streams? If so, problem explained.

Sometimes, like Ocam’s Razor, the simplest answer is the correct answer.

Now, about those bears in the woods.

[cyclotic]

Unlike the 1970’s where the Corps built 4 ft tall dikes all along Lake St. Clair on the other side of the state, just below Lake Huron. Now that was unprecedented.

[MaxMax]

I keep flushing my toilet and it keeps filling back up. DOOM!

[Chaguito]

Ha! You scorn my theory. But when was the last time you saw Niagara Falls?

[cva66snipe]

When it reaches Tennessee let me know.

Ain't you heard about the crack in Norris Dam. Rumor is ifun it ever gives away it will flood downtown Knoxville :>}

[bert]

Norris too?!

Boone sprang a leak and is under repair they hope

[cva66snipe]

Norris too?!

LOL an impossible scenario but one I've heard most my life at various times. Wrong watershed. Norris is Powell & Clinch rivers and Tennessee River in Knoxville is French Broad & Holston combined just above Knoxville. It would have to travel down through Oak Ridge through Melton Hill Dam & to where Tennessee River and Clinch come together and back up Watts Bar and the Tennessee River over Ft Loudon Dam up to Knoxville. :>}

But on a serious note yeah actually there was one threat they considered to be real at one point in history. Back in WW2 Gun Placements were put in below Norris for about two miles. The old towers and cables for the hand cart still stands today. Even then they considered it a realistic possibility that Germany or Japan could steal a local airplane, load it with explosives, and fly into it. That was when Manhattan Project was underway down steam in Oak Ridge.

[ez]

Touche’ It has been a number of years. I withdraw my skepticism.

[bert]

is Norris thought to be leaking now?

TVA Boone lake on the Watauga/Holston river South fork is really leaking and has been drawn way down, below the normal winter draw down