{"id":19666,"date":"2022-05-20T15:01:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T19:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=19666"},"modified":"2022-05-20T15:12:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T19:12:29","slug":"lake-michigan-lake-huron-lost-20-trillion-gallons-of-water-over-last-2-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=19666","title":{"rendered":"Lake Michigan, Lake Huron lost 20 trillion gallons of water over last 2 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/weather\/2022\/05\/lake-michigan-lake-huron-lost-20-trillion-gallons-of-water-over-last-2-years.html?utm_source=fark&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_content=link&amp;ICID=ref_fark\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/3QEYB6CZ7NBXVOY4PLNH2PECKM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"416\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">The amount of water that has left the Great Lakes since its recent record high levels is staggering. It equates to three years of entire global water use.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/weather\/2022\/05\/lake-michigan-lake-huron-lost-20-trillion-gallons-of-water-over-last-2-years.html\">Lake Michigan, Lake Huron lost 20 trillion gallons of water over last 2 years<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Contextless headline is useless!<\/p>\n<p>The great Lakes have ~22,671\u00a0km<sup>3<\/sup>) water = 5.989045e+15 US gallons.\u00a0 20T \/ 5.989045e+15 = 0.3%.\u00a0 so not nothing, but not huge either.\u00a0 also, the last few years have been historically high levels, so it would be interesting to compare to the long-term average levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The amount of water that has left the Great Lakes since its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1301,205],"class_list":["post-19666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-great-lakes","tag-water","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}