Lake depths and heights
Lake depths and heights
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Why is Lake Michigan combined with Lake Huron when all the other lakes are individual?
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It's the same body of water, one lake. It's just massive, and surrounds the lower peninsula of Michigan, so they gave each side of the lake a different name.
Truly it's massive, it behaves almost like the ocean in a lot of ways. A lot of water.
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Wow, no way! I thought the part between the UP and LP was a lot narrower than it is! Never realized that it was just one big lake with a narrow part
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Yeah it's crazy, the Mackinac bridge is like 5 miles long, no foot traffic allowed except for one day of the year when thousands of people get together and walk across it.
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The waves on Lake Michigan were far larger than I expected when I visited. Not as high as the Atlantic or Pacific, but pretty big.
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Right!? I've lived here my whole life, so it's normal for me. But when we had friends in to visit from a coastal state, the waves were big, and they were amazed. They kept forgetting it wasn't the ocean, and they loved that they didn't have to rinse off the salt afterwards 😁
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Huron and Michigan are hydrologically a single lake because the flow of water through the straits keeps their water levels in overall equilibrium.
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