Lake Superior is taking longer to warm up this year

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THUNDER BAY — This may not be the best year to take a dip in Lake Superior on a hot summer day – at least not yet."It's been a remarkable year," says local climatologist Graham Saunders.But the warmup that's supposed to come with spring began in June rather than May.According to data from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Lake Superior's average surface temperature on Tuesday was only 8.5 C.

He said it's not easy to explain what's happened this year, but he attributes it in part to the influence of La Niña, a periodic weather phenomenon that sees cooler than normal sea-surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific ocean impacting global weather patterns. Saunders believes particularly windy conditions this year may also be a factor, as this has led to cold water from deeper in the lake mixing more with water at the surface.

Along the shoreline east of Thunder Bay, people were still swimming last October, "and it was relatively comfortable....a lot warmer than it is right now," Saunders remarked.

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