You may have noticed some of our rivers here in Michigan look very low. Some parts of Michigan haven’t had much rain this summer, and the severe drought ranking definitely shows in river levels.
The Grand River runs through some of the currently driest part of Michigan. The Grand River in the Grand Rapids area looked really low last week, before the scattered heavy rains over the past few days.
The scattered heavy rain will temporarily increase the water flowing in the Grand River, but then the water level will drop back down due to the severe drought.
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has water level gauges and calculates how much water is flowing through rivers at select locations…