The Lucknow Sentinel, 2016-04-27, Page 1010 Lucknow Sentinel • Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Huron/Georgian Bay at 1998 levels and rising
Scott Dunn
Owen Sound Sun Times
Georgian Bay and Lake
Huron are 32 centimetres
about the longterm aver-
age for this time of year
and 13 cm higher than this
time last year, lake level
expert Frank Seglenieks
said Wednesday.
Levels are the highest
for this time of year in
those connected bodies of
water since 1998, the year
which roughly marked the
tail end of a period of high
lake levels. A slow decline
in levels followed over the
next 15 years, when lake
levels were trending below
the average.
All the Great Lakes have
risen over the past two
years and are "definitely
above average," Seglenieks
said. Longterm averages
stretch back to measure-
ments taken since 1918.
"So we've kind of gone
back to the levels ... at
the end of the high water
periods back in the '90s,"
Seglenieks said.
What stands out for
Seglenieks, a water
resources engineer with
the boundary water issues
unit of Environment and
Climate Change Canada,
is the level rose 14 centi-
metres in February and
March in Huron and Geor-
gian Bay, when on average
it rises 4 cm in that period.
That's mostly because
March's spring-like tem-
peratures sped up the
snowmelt and there was
lots of rain too - it was
almost twice as wet as the
longterm average in the
basin, which includes
Lake Michigan, Lake
Huron and Georgian Bay,
Seglenieks said.
That may mean less of a
rise in the weeks ahead
due to spring rain and
melting but Seglenieks
said even if there were
average conditions, the
lakes' seasonal rise will
add 25 cm more by the
middle of summer.
And even if spring and
summer are dry, local lake
levels "will still more than
likely be above average."
Seglenieks attributes the
rising lake levels to weather
pattern changes which
brought more precipitation.
And it's not all attributable to
the El Nino effect, which is
often cited for extreme
weather changes, he said.
That effect refers to the
influence of warmer
waters in the Pacific
Ocean off South America
on the jet stream and on
weather patterns.
"Because it's been going
on for a couple of years
now, the higher water lev-
els have started before the
El Nino started. And El
Nino peaked last Novem-
ber and it affects more the
temperature," as reflected
in the mild winter we just
experienced, he said.
But El Nino's influence
on precipitation is less
one-sided; sometimes it's
higher and sometimes it's
lower, Seglenieks said.
"So it's a general pattern
also for the last couple of
years of higher precipita-
tion. And that's just some-
thing that has happened
and maybe in 10, 15 years
they might be able to look
back and relate it to some-
thing else. But right now,
that's just the way it is."
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