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Warming Lakes: Climate Change and Variability Drive Low Water Levels on the Great Lakes

Posted by Lisa Borre in Water Currents on November 20, 2012
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  For people living around the Great Lakes, water levels this past month have appeared much lower than many will remember. The upper Great Lakes reached near-record low water levels in October. This was most evident on Lakes Michigan and Huron, where lake levels dropped to less than two inches (4 cm) above record lows…