Great Lakes Ice Coverage Down 71%
You don’t have to tell me because I have seen it with my own eyes but Great Lakes Ice Coverage is down 71% over the last 40 years.
Great Lakes ice coverage declined an average of 71 percent over the past 40 years, according to a report from the American Meteorological Society.
What does this effect besides ice fishing, snowmobile races and ice festivals like Tip Up Town?
Wang told WBEZ-FM in Chicago that diminished ice coverage speeds wintertime evaporation, reducing the lakes’ water levels, which can spur increased and early algae blooms, damage water quality, and accelerate erosion as more shoreline is exposed to waves.
Yep, water levels are very startlingly lower than when I was a kid and our beaches have lost quality due to algae blooms. Condos once build right at the shore with a sea wall to protect them are now a football length from the water with fields of dry lake bed covered in cattails where the water once was. Boat launches that fisherman once used to go perch fishing on the Saginaw Bay are no longer usable because the water levels have dropped so much.
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