Alarming: Great Lakes Water Levels Rise Yet Again When They Aren't Suppostu

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https://www.bayshorebroadcasting.ca/news_item.php?NewsID=114886

 

The great lakes have risen another 3 inches since December... During the winter normally levels plateau and don't rise much until end of winter or early spring when snowmelt and rain come

 

The fact that the lakes were at all time record highs in June 2019 and are now rising in winter 2020 is very concerning

 

Lake Huron was visited and reported on by the US Army. 

 

The levels are down slightly from their June 2019 all time high peak (as it typically does in the fall) but remain the highest in 40 years and could break all time January record

 

2020 was expected to be another record breaking year as they expect a lot of precipitation late winter and this spring but that fact that it's already rising this much in January is especially concerning

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Sometimes being optimistic is really hard...

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16 minutes ago, highlyreductive said:

Sometimes being optimistic is really hard...

The great lakes for a long time we're dropping due to global warming but for close to a decade now the trend has been the exact opposite

 

Winters have warmed up enough now that the air is much less dry and more humid and damp days so even tho there's less ice coverage, evaporation is actually less a lot of winters

 

Also precipitation year round has increased more than the evaporation increases in hotter drier summers can compensate

 

So evaporation is down but precipitation is up so the lakes now are chronically bloated

 

Toronto island has been closed 3 years already this decade due to being partially submerged and a lot of beaches that used to exist are a tiny fraction of the size

 

To think fresh water is becoming more scarce do to global warming and in this area it's literally slowly drowning us 

 

 

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This was a report not that old on Lake Michigan

 

 

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9 minutes ago, Economy said:

To think fresh water is becoming more scarce do to global warming and in this era it's literally slowly drowning us 

Literally the Earth @ us:

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1 minute ago, highlyreductive said:

Literally the Earth @ us:

I meant to say in this area it's drowning us.

 

As usual I make typos that totally change the context of what I'm saying

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Just now, Economy said:

I meant to say in this area it's drowning us.

 

As usual I make typos that totally change the context of what I'm saying

But it kind of makes sense either way! 

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Well that is bad news 

Can it maybe not drown Toronto and its islands until I finally got the chance to visit 

People around the great lakes be like:
 

 

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Just now, highlyreductive said:

But it kind of makes sense either way! 

Not exactly. Cuz in this "era" as in time, fresh water is at a shortage around the world in many areas... Fresh water lakes and rivers are suffering

 

But in this particular "area" as in the Great Lakes area there's too much fresh water now that's so high and eroding coast lines

 

*Checks what I just typed to make sure I didn't make a stupid typo again as usual*

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1 minute ago, Economy said:

Not exactly. Cuz in this "era" as in time, fresh water is at a shortage around the world in many areas... Fresh water lakes and rivers are suffering

 

But in this particular "area" as in the Great Lakes area there's too much fresh water now that's so high and eroding coast lines

 

*Checks what I just typed to make sure I didn't make a stupid typo again as usual*

I mean, yeah, semantics-wise it doesn't. But I still got what you were trying to say.

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2 minutes ago, ARTPOPe said:

Well that is bad news 

Can it maybe not drown Toronto and its islands until I finally got the chance to visit 

People around the great lakes be like:
 

 

Bish I been wanting to go to Toronto island again for years and every summer I have the time to go it's always closed cuz it's under water

 

This is not ok:

 

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1 minute ago, highlyreductive said:

I mean, yeah, semantics-wise it doesn't. But I still got what you were trying to say.

Check out my photos of Toronto island I just replied to the user

 

Been trying to go for years (I have childhood memories) 

 

But it spends much of the springs and summers closed now cuz it's always under water

 

It's been open most falls and winter when water drops a little but the island is no fun during those times cuz the activities there are meant for summer so there's no point

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@ARTPOPe also I tried to LMAO ur vid cuz it's funny but it's not accepting my reaction it's only letting me press like

 

 

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5 minutes ago, Economy said:

Check out my photos of Toronto island I just replied to the user

 

Been trying to go for years (I have childhood memories) 

 

But it spends much of the springs and summers closed now cuz it's always under water

 

It's been open most falls and winter when water drops a little but the island is no fun during those times cuz the activities there are meant for summer so there's no point

Ok, wow. There's a river in my hometown and the water level varies vastly, so the images are quite familiar, but I can't imagine it in this scope. Jeez!

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Just now, highlyreductive said:

Ok, wow. There's a river in my hometown and the water level varies vastly, so the images are quite familiar, but I can't imagine it in this scope. Jeez!

At least it's just a touristic island

 

Chicago has had more close calls with the water reaching the rims than Toronto cuz it's closer to water levels