Visited a western WA lake this past Thursday and it had lots of algae floating on the lake, as seen in this photo:
In places where the wind collected the algae, the blue-green color was very apparent, almost like someone had dumped some paint into the water:
Here's another photo in a different location on the lake:
I normally think of algae disappearing in the colder water temperatures, but this blue-green algae seems to survive and even thrive in the colder temperatures (the water temperature was 46 degrees). Anyone know why? The problem seems to be getting worse on several of our western WA lakes in recent years, not just this lake, but I don't know why, other than climate change probably having some effect.
Rex
In places where the wind collected the algae, the blue-green color was very apparent, almost like someone had dumped some paint into the water:
Here's another photo in a different location on the lake:
I normally think of algae disappearing in the colder water temperatures, but this blue-green algae seems to survive and even thrive in the colder temperatures (the water temperature was 46 degrees). Anyone know why? The problem seems to be getting worse on several of our western WA lakes in recent years, not just this lake, but I don't know why, other than climate change probably having some effect.
Rex