Name: Beaver Island reports a year of rising Lake Michigan water levels, 2005
Start: 2005
End: 2005
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 2005
Kind: Observation
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: hydrologyenvironmentweathergeographyscience
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The February 2005 issue described a recent rise in Lake Michigan water levels after a low period, associating the prior year’s increase with snowpack, heavy rain, and reduced evaporation under ice cover. It placed the change in the longer 1964–1986 water-level cycle.

Evidence limits

This is a newspaper interpretation and forecast discussion, not a gauge dataset or hydrologic model.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, February 2005, "A Year of Rising Water."
Discusses the 1964–1986 Lake Michigan water-level range, recent rises, snowpack, rain, ice cover, and a possible weak El Niño influence on the coming year. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, February 2005, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the water-level report.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2005-02_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island reports a year of rising Lake Michigan water levels, 2005”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-year-of-rising-water-2005/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February 2005, "A Year of Rising Water." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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