Posted on 06/30/2011 8:58:59 AM PDT by DManA
The level of Lake Superior rose 4 inches in June, a month the big lake usually goes up 3 inches, according to the International Lake Superior Board of Control.
The lake continued inching back toward a normal level thanks to higher-than-average inflow from rain across the entire basin. Lake Superior now sits an inch higher than the July 1 level in 2010, but 11 inches below the long-term normal for this time of year.
(Excerpt) Read more at duluthnewstribune.com ...
Never mind.
Crikey! Let me be the first to say: This is hugh and series!
Obviously global warming. In the past it caused evaporation. In the present it is causing snow and glaciers to melt. See, no matter what, it is always due to global warming.
It is from the polar ice caps melting. Algore told me so.
Send that water to Texas.
Its a big lake and takes some 200 years for all the water in it to be replaced.
Seems like its rise and fall would also be on a fairly long time frame.
You forgot to add -- the extra inflow CAUSED BY GLOBAL WARMING of melt water and rain runoff is also bringing sediments loaded with pestisides and other poisons into the lake which will result in the lake being not only higher in level but poisoned for generations to come!!! EEK EEK EEK.
Eleven inches below normal and they call it Lake Superior?
How about Lake Marginal?
No mention of whether or not the expect it to keep rising.
In June, this area gave almost half the month to rain, in buckets or in drops. Duh - of course the lake level is going to rise!
whether or not the expect it to keep rising.
I have lived here all of my life...here is a newsflash..in the spring, the levels in the lakes will rise (bet you’re wondering how I know this) and in late summer, the levels in the lakes will go down ( another startling revelation ) and the average level of water goes through about a 10 year cycle between highest and lowest levels.....can I get my masters degree in climatology now????
Lake Superior has an average depth of 483 feet. I don’t think a few inches makes it marginal.
What a crap report....Only says what we already know....The lake is not gong to drown us because of the melting,cough cough ice caps.
Temperatures in Duluth today will be lucky to hit 70 near the big lake, the Weather Service says, thanks to 10-20 mph east winds blowing over the cool waters of the big lake.
Maybe we will all be lucky and it will overflow its southern banks and wash away all the detritus and scum which constitutes Chicago into the Gulf of Mexico.
I can dream.
Let ME be the 1st to say: “It’s Bush’s Fault!”
Yes, I know. I’ve seen it a number of times - truly magnificent. In area it is more than twice the size of the country I happen to be living in right now (The Netherlands).
The wording of the story and the name of the lake just touched my sense of irony.
How many times do I have to tell you this, it is NOT global warming.
George Bush did it.
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