{"id":6402,"date":"2012-01-02T02:08:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T10:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blitransfer.wpengine.com\/?p=6402"},"modified":"2017-06-21T14:20:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T19:20:45","slug":"water-levels-in-the-great-lakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2012\/01\/02\/water-levels-in-the-great-lakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Levels in the Great Lakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bluelivingidea.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Great-Lakes-Shoreline.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6403\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2012\/01\/02\/water-levels-in-the-great-lakes\/great-lakes-shoreline\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Great-Lakes-Shoreline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,332\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Great Lakes Shoreline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Great Lakes Shorline&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Great-Lakes-Shoreline-300x199.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Great-Lakes-Shoreline.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6403\" title=\"Great Lakes Shoreline\" src=\"http:\/\/bluelivingidea.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Great-Lakes-Shoreline.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Great-Lakes-Shoreline.jpg 500w, https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Great-Lakes-Shoreline-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Water levels in the Great Lakes are lower than their long-term averages. Despite a wet season, experts believe the gains could evaporate.<\/p>\n<p>After the unusually warm temperatures this summer, lake levels are lower than many would like.\u00a0 Unseasonably warm temperatures have kept ice from forming on many parts of the lakes.<\/p>\n<p>Ice cover slows evaporation because the ice must first melt before the water can evaporate.<\/p>\n<p>Water levels make a difference in shoreline habitat, fish spawning, recreational boating, and the amount of cargo carried in commercial ships.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Great Lakes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/cat.mhtml?lang=en&amp;search_source=search_form&amp;version=llv1&amp;anyorall=all&amp;safesearch=1&amp;searchterm=%22great+lakes%22&amp;search_group=&amp;orient=&amp;search_cat=&amp;searchtermx=&amp;photographer_name=&amp;people_gender=&amp;people_age=&amp;people_ethnicity=&amp;people_number=&amp;commercial_ok=&amp;color=&amp;show_color_wheel=1#id=84203653&amp;src=p-82553449\" target=\"_blank\">Great Lakes photo<\/a> via Shutterstock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water levels in the Great Lakes are lower than their long-term averages. Despite a wet season, experts believe the gains could evaporate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":6403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[2854,597,884,2396],"yst_prominent_words":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Great-Lakes-Shoreline.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6402"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}