A wet spring season has experts predicting that summer water levels for the Great Lakes could be higher than normal and above last year's mark through early fall. The Great Lakes Hydraulics and Hydrology Office at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Detroit District announced Monday in its six-month water level forecast that summer water levels on lakes Superior, Michigan-Huron, St. Clair and Erie will be at their highest since 1996-1998. "Above average precipitation on the Great Lakes and very wet conditions in the months of April and May pushed levels higher than originally forecasted," said Keith Kompoltowicz, chief of Watershed Hydrology at the Army Corps Detroit District. Army Corps officials said that the water levels on Ontario are expected to continue this month before they begin their seasonal decline. Year-round recording of Great Lakes water levels has occurred since 1918.

Source: Fox News June 13, 2017 15:28 UTC