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Record summer heat killing more fish
Posted by Great Lakes Echo: Jennifer Kalish on July 31st, 2012
Great Lakes Echo: This summer’s unusually high temperatures and continuing drought are killing fish across the Great Lakes region.
“There’s nothing wrong water quality-wise,” said Randy Schumacher, fisheries supervisor for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. “The species simply can’t tolerate that hot of water for this extended period of time.”
There were multiple reports of fish kills in early July across Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Indiana and Illinois, according to state fisheries supervisors....
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Great Lakes cities smash long-time heat records
Posted by Great Lakes Echo: Jennifer Kalish on June 21st, 2012
Great Lakes Echo: The first five months of 2012 were the warmest on record for many Great Lakes cities.
“The Midwest and upper Midwest just experienced a spring that was literally off the charts,” said Deke Arndt, chief of the climate monitoring branch at the National Climatic Data Center. “We literally had to rescale some of our charts to accommodate the warmth we saw this spring.”
Thirty-eight cities in the Great Lakes region knocked out serious long-standing heat records, according to the National Oceanic...