There may be a glimmer of hope for wave-weary landowners and municipalities along the shores of Lake Huron and Georgian Bay. After Lake Huron set high water records over the first eight months of 2020, lake water levels have been on a significant decline thanks to below average precipitation and more evaporation because of a lack of ice cover. The Lake Michigan-Huron basin actually set a record of a different kind in January, when it dropped 11 centimetres, far more than the average decline of two cm for the first month of the year. In February, when the lake on average drops one cm, it fell four cm.