Great Lakes temps rise amid summer heat wave

[marmar]

(Detroit News) As Michigan basks in summer heat this month, the Great Lakes also are warming up faster than usual, researchers say.

Officials with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory predict the water temperatures “rising a few degrees” in early July.

According to the group’s Great Lakes Forecasting System, the average lake-wide surface temperature on Thursday for Lake Superior was 58.23 degrees Fahrenheit, while Huron notched 67.39.

Michigan was 69.77, Erie hit 74.19 and Ontario climbed to 66.58. Readings for Lake St. Clair were not listed or available on the website.

A year earlier, the average temperatures were about 51 for Superior; Huron, 61; Michigan, 65; Erie, 72; and Ontario, 64. ..............(more)

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/07/04/great-lakes-temps-rise-amid-summer-heat-wave/5369227002/

[Delphinus]

1. I guess

it shouldn't be surprising, but it is. The Washington Post reported today

At a dock on Virginia Key, a little island about two miles east of downtown Miami, the sea surface temperature shot up to 92.5 degrees last week, the warmest on record, said Brian McNoldy, a tropical-weather researcher at the University of Miami.