The Great Lakes temperature extremes have changed across all five Great Lakes over the last 80 years. They’ve intensified sharply in their strength, more than doubling. Stronger extremes can disrupt ecosystems, threaten fisheries, degrade water quality, and stress coastal infrastructure like drinking water intakes and nuclear power plant cooling systems.
www.michiganpublic.org/environment-climate-change/2025-05-26/great-lakes-temperature-extremes-intensifying-due-to-climate-change