Some pretty dramatic weather over the past month or so has had a big impact on water levels in Georgian Bay and Lake Huron.
Chuck Southam is with Environment Canada’s Centre for Inland Water and says we are now in the seasonal decline as far as lake levels are concerned and Lake Huron has dropped 27 centimetres since the lake peaked back in July.
He says that is about 10 centimetres lower than average.
Southam says in the month of October alone, Lake Huron and Georgian Bay dipped 13 centimetres which is about twice its average decline.
He says the high winds we experienced several weeks ago also resulted in a loss of water from the lakes in the form of lake effect rain.
Southam says the long range outlook for lake levels shows that if they receive a lot of rain or snow from outside the Great Lakes basin over the next little while the lakes may just stay where there are about now through the winter.
On the other hand, he says if it remains dry the lakes levels by January could be between 30 and 50 centimetres below average.
