Snow melt could help Great Lakes
February 26, 08 by TheFleetIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
Rex Hall Jr. | Source: Kalamazoo Gazette
Most of the recent storms have come from Alberta, Canada, and the Gulf of Mexico, meaning they are importing moisture to help replenish the Great Lakes, which still are near record low levels.
It’s better than the typical lake-effect snow, which recycles moisture from the big lakes.
The 10 biggest storms of the season have accounted for 44.7 inches of snow — at least half of those originating in the Pacific Northwest and the rest fed with moisture from the Gulf of Mexico.
It would help the Great Lakes if the snow stuck around until spring, then melted all at once, said Cynthia Sellinger, a hydrologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor.
