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Remnants of Brutal Winter Will Affect Wisconsin’s Summer

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Wednesday, July 9, 2014   

GREEN BAY, Wis. - Summer is officially under way, but for a lot of Wisconsin communities, the lingering effects of a brutally cold winter are still being felt.

The extremely rare near total freezeover of the Great Lakes this winter has left Lake Michigan 10 degrees colder than it usually is at this time of year, said meteorologist Jeff Last at the National Weather Service in Green Bay, and it's still having an impact on our weather.

"When the warm, moist air of summer flows over that lake," he said, "it produces fog - much more frequently than we've seen in some time - and it makes swimming quite uncomfortable if not dangerous because of the effect of cold water on our bodies."

Last said it's going to take some time to get back to normal.

"It's going to require air temperatures that are above average because a lake as large as Lake Michigan takes a lot of energy to heat up," he said. "Assuming the temperatures are at or above average, the lake temperatures will gradually rise to more comfortable readings."

A 10-degree difference may not sound like much, Last said, but Lake Michigan is the sixth largest freshwater lake in the world, and it takes a lot of time to raise its temperature the 10 degrees needed to get it back to the summertime norm.

Last said the effect of the lake's lower temperature will be felt well into summer in Wisconsin.

"Any time we get an easterly flow at least through the middle of summer, temperatures will be considerably colder at the beaches and the shoreline communities," he said. "We're used to that when a southeast or east wind blows off Lake Michigan any time of the spring or summer, but certainly the impact is much more dramatic."

The lower temperature of Lake Michigan also affects the strategies of commercial fishing operations and sport fishing.


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