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Originally Posted by CaliNative
Right now L. Michigan is quite high, correct? Are the lake side streets flooded sometimes?
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the lake was
extremely high last year, but lake levels have come down drastically since then, about -13" YOY compared to october of last year.
and of course, each and every year, the lake goes through its annual cycle of high water mark (summer) and low water mark (winter), averaging about 2 feet of difference between them.
that said, the lake is still +18" up from long-term october averages, but that's still a whole better than where we were a year ago, with MASSIVE erosion issues all around the lakes last summer.
over the course of my life living near the shore of a great lake, i've witnessed several back and forth macro-swings from high lake levels to low lake levels, but what feels different now is that the cycles appear to be getting compressed.
what used to take a decade+ to go from near-record highs to near-record lows is now happening within 5 years or so.
climate change? maybe. no one is excatly sure how the lakes are being (or will be) affected.