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                                                                 Hard for us to   predictions?
                                                            understand weath-
                                                            er  patterns,  as
                                                            some so confident-
                                                            ly predict 30 years out
                                                            but cannot accurately
                                                            predict tomorrow.     based on the 18.6 years, I laid it over
                                                                 Long time locals  the  Lake  St.  Clair  water  levels  to  ex-
                                                            around the lake have  plore this possible theory...Seems like
                                                            said  we  have  a  20  a plausible reason.  But nope, as you
                                                            year cycle of high and  can see looking at 100 years there is
                                                            low water.            not a strong correlation.  I then thought
                                                                 Comparing  our  of the sun and laid in all the partial and
                                                            highest  water  lev-  full eclipses in the last 100 years and
                                                            els since  recorded  there have been a lot!  There was no
         As mentioned in last season’s                      in  1918,  the  20  year  correlation  there either.   The images
        Guide, a good rule of thumb I use for  cycle  holds  fairly  true.    But  why  20  “over  shadowed“  the  data  so  I  took
        “normal” is a lake water temperature of  years??  Coincidentally I recently read  them out of this pictorial.  Next I looked
          o
        78  by the 4th of July.  We barely made  every 18.6 years we have a “moon wob-  at the El NiÑo vs. La NiÑa.  In a nutshell
        it there last season for the entire year.  ble” which affects the world’s tides and  for “Great Lakes Region weather”, La

                             o
        Most bays barely hit 75  by end of July!  could  cause  flooding.    Things    MOON “WOBBLES”
             While record summer heat impacted  that make me go hmmmm.  So
        much of the nation, Michigan fluctuated                                 Minor Standstill       Major Standstill
                         o
                                         o
        between upper 80 s and the low 70 s
        for a high.  Spring then summer, then
        spring then summer again until a final
        heat wave in August.
           BLUE = COOL     RED = HOT
              = La NiÑa     = El NiÑo
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