Rising water levels in Lake Michigan are expected to have an effect on the East and Fox rivers, which puts low-lying areas in Green Bay at risk of flooding.
Measurements taken by meteorologists at the National Weather Service show that May 2019’s water levels are only about 1.5 inches lower than the record water levels for May. The high water levels have a strong influence on the tributaries of the lake, and strong winds exacerbate the situation.
When water levels in Lake Michigan are high, the flow of water into the Bay of Green Bay slows down. This means that the feeder rivers are also experiencing rising levels of water not being helped by the heavy rainfall that has nowhere else to go.
Several areas in Green Bay can expect to see banner printing with flood warnings on them. The Cellcom Green Bay Marathon has already been forced to cancel the full-marathon because of relatively low levels of rainfall which caused low-lying areas in the marathon’s proposed path to be flooded out. Jeff Last from the National Weather Service stated that:
“You don’t have to have a lot of precipitation with high lake levels to have the Fox River, East River and Duck Creek flood because of the strong Northeast winds that prevent the normal flow of water into the Bay.”
According to the National Weather Service, more rain is forecast for the coming weeks.
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