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Scenario flips: Lake Ontario, St Lawrence River regulators address low water levels

Scenario flips: Lake Ontario, St Lawrence River regulators address low water levels
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Scenario flips: Lake Ontario, St Lawrence River regulators address low water levels

WATERTOWN — The balancing act regulators of Lake Ontario and St. Lawrence River levels undertake each year looks a little different this year than in recent years as lake levels currently are nearly a foot below long-term average. Lower than average precipitation in recent months and a lighter than normal snowpack runoff have resulted in a lake level of 244.69 feet as of Sunday, below its long-term average of 245.57 feet for this point in the year. As a result, the International Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Board, which regulates outflows through the Robert Moses-Robert H. Saunders Power Dam at Massena and Cornwall, Ontario, using directives contained in the International Joint Commission’s Plan 2014, decided Saturday to reduce outflows below those specified in the regulation plan.

Climate emergency should be front and centre

Article content Our climate is changing due to human behaviour. It’s getting warmer all over the world. World leaders from across the globe will be meeting in November of this year in Glasgow to get an update regarding the Paris Agreement of 2015. Will the targets to reduce Green House Gases or carbon emissions have been met or not, and what will Canada’s target be for 2030? On a local level, will flooding occur along the Bay of Quinte? All of these events are interconnected. Even the snow storm down in Texas is related to climate warming. It does snow in Texas, just not that often. In essence, what happened was that warmer air pushed colder air from the arctic all the way down south. Put simply, the warmer air is stronger than before. In cooler times, the jet stream is more of a straight line around the globe. Not this time, with the jet stream sagging into Texas, bringing with it colder Arctic air. And, Texans were not ready for a wintery blast cold arctic air.

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