Name: Beacon predicts a higher Lake Michigan level after a snowy winter, 2004
Start: 2004-04
End: 2004-04
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 2004-04
Kind: Weather
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: weatherhydrologyenvironmentproperty
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The April 2004 Beacon predicted a four-inch rise in Lake Michigan after the winter’s heavy snowfall and warned that property owners could lose more than two feet of beach.

Evidence limits

The item is a brief prediction and does not identify a gauge, model, or later measured lake level.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, April 2004, "Higher Tide Coming Soon."
Says that heavy winter snow was expected to produce a four-inch rise in Lake Michigan while reducing property owners' beaches by more than two feet. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, April 2004, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the short environmental observation.
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Added 5 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beacon predicts a higher Lake Michigan level after a snowy winter, 2004”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-higher-tide-lake-michigan-2004/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, April 2004, "Higher Tide Coming Soon." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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