Well, this doesn't seem promising, does it? From the Chicago Tribune:

Lakes Michigan and Huron, which are considered one lake because they are connected at the Straits of Mackinac, were about 2 inches below their historical monthly average in October, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. On all lakes, average water levels since the start of October range from 3 to 7 inches below what they were at the same time last year...

Evaporation drives the annual declines during the fall, Fry said. Cold air mixing with the warm surface water temperatures on the lakes leads to energy transfer, resulting in evaporation. That process has been enhanced this fall because warmer weather makes surface water temperatures higher. Combined with the season's very little rainfall, evaporation only increases. Swaths of the Midwest are experiencing moderate to severe drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

The "bomb cyclone" is being carried toward the West Coast on a long atmospheric river. "This is going to be an impactful event," Richard Bann, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center, told the Associated Press. The atmospheric river will start dropping rain over the North Bay Wednesday morning, KRON meteorologist John Shrable said. A flood watch has already been issues for three Bay Area counties - Sonoma, Napa and Marin - starting 4 a.m. Wednesday.

"We are expecting unsettled conditions to last until early next week," said Roger Gass, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Bay Area office. "It won't dry out completely until early next week, and potentially into the middle of next week." The Sierra is also expected to see a healthy dumping of snow. A winter storm warning goes into effect starting Wednesday.

The climate seems displeased with the notion of being guarded by the HRH, the Emir of the petro-state of North Dakota, and by a guy who doesn't think it's in crisis at all, two men who think about oil derricks in Alaska and suddenly are afflicted with bombogenesis... IN THEIR PANTS!