Originally Posted by n20michael (Post 3830998)

I am in a bay in the 1000 Islands, St Lawrence River is SCARY low! Lowest I have seen in my lifetime [40years] I had some dredging done a few years ago, and will probably have to do some more, just hope the "rest" of the bay stays deep enough to get out into the river, I am hearing reports of ships running aground ALL the time, and the car ferry that travels between Kingston and the Island we are on has BARELY enough water to run in, I hate to think what the water levels will be like if we get no snow again this year. My neighbour has less than a foot of water in her boathouse and it used to be over my head :-[

Must be the bottling plants taking all the water, Geez, EVERYWHERE else I see on TV is being hit with flooding!!??

Originally Posted by hotjava66 (Post 3831443)

Water levels here on Saginaw Bay/Lake Huron are now at record lows. Was working the other day on Sand Point near Caseville MI, at the end of the point there was over a mile of lake bottom exposed out from the normal waters edge. Took a pic but didn't download to the laptop yet. Praying for some heavy snows in the north this year.

Originally Posted by Drock78 (Post 3831720)

Here you go Eric...

Originally Posted by Drock78 (Post 3831720)

Here you go Eric...

Originally Posted by n20michael (Post 3831719)

YEP!! We are on the South shore of Wolfe Island, straight across from Millens Bay, near the East end of Carlton Island, there is a big red channel marker at the mouth of our Bay (Murry Bay)

Water is CRAZY low! I may do some more dredging, but, it's pointless to dredge in front of my place if the water is too shallow elsewhere to get out to the river. Sure hope we get snow, rain does nothing, we need snow, and LOTS of it!

Cape Vincent is awesome, used to go to Captain Jacks years ago, now we take the ferry at Hornes point and go to the Antique Museum in Clayton, and always go to the French Festival at the Cape, good hearing from ya! Neighbour!

Originally Posted by hotjava66 (Post 3831443)

Water levels here on Saginaw Bay/Lake Huron are now at record lows. Was working the other day on Sand Point near Caseville MI, at the end of the point there was over a mile of lake bottom exposed out from the normal waters edge. Took a pic but didn't download to the laptop yet. Praying for some heavy snows in the north this year.

Originally Posted by Interceptor (Post 3832030)

We need a hard freeze on the big lakes with snow on top other wise everything evaporates and goes elsewhere.

Originally Posted by 4bus (Post 3831927)

Too bad most of the snow in the GL region is lake effect, formed by the evaporation of water from the lakes....not sure how that is going to help :lolhit:

Originally Posted by Interceptor (Post 3832030)

We need a hard freeze on the big lakes with snow on top other wise everything evaporates and goes elsewhere.

Originally Posted by Full Force (Post 3832059)

Yep, we need the great lakes to freeze all winter to keep it from evaporating,and TONS of snow up north, the snow on the states side of the country dont really help much, its the snow up far north that trickles down into the great lakes and helps...

so far this winter is just like last years and we are gonna be screwed next boating season, the western basin of Lake Erie is shallow enough now, hate to see it worse...

Originally Posted by 4bus (Post 3831927)

Too bad most of the snow in the GL region is lake effect, formed by the evaporation of water from the lakes....not sure how that is going to help :lolhit:

Originally Posted by Full Force (Post 3832059)

Yep, we need the great lakes to freeze all winter to keep it from evaporating,and TONS of snow up north, the snow on the states side of the country dont really help much, its the snow up far north that trickles down into the great lakes and helps...

so far this winter is just like last years and we are gonna be screwed next boating season, the western basin of Lake Erie is shallow enough now, hate to see it worse...

Originally Posted by n20michael (Post 3832056)

I was referring to the several FEET of snow that area's NORTH of the GL region used to get, that in turn melted and fed the tributaries and eventually the great lakes

Pretty sure the 8ft of snow that was in Ottawa when I was there a few years ago WASN'T lake effect snow, but, maybe you could clear that up for me.

Following your theory the lack of snow over the last few years would mean an INCREASE in water levels, would it not???

Originally Posted by Donzi ZX (Post 3832078)

I'll take a stab at explaining it...lake effect is formed when warmer air from over the lake dumps moisture as the air passes over the cooler land, keeping the snowfall (moisture) closer to shore, which eventually melts and ends up back in the lake. When the winter is warmer, it causes more water to evap from the lake, and since the land is warmer than the lake, the moisture in the air gets carried further inland, so most of it doesn't end up back in the lake.

Originally Posted by Interceptor (Post 3832229)

Here's another fact that doesn't help the Great Lakes. About 90% of the snow that falls in Ontario melts into river that drain NORTH into Hudson Bay. Very few northern Ontario rivers drain into Superior.
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