By Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press
It has seemed more normal lately. But Michigan's mild start to winter has Great Lakes levels doing strange things.
"We've seen some very interesting conditions, to say the least, so far this winter," said Keith Kompoltowicz, the chief of watershed hydrology for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Detroit.
December saw record amounts of precipitation in many parts of the Great Lakes basin — but in the form of rain, not snow, he said.
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