Lake Erie is blooming again

Residents along Lake Erie can expect more algae blooms this summer, but they won't be nearly as bad as last year.
    
That's the word from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who add this year's blooms in the western part of the lake are just beginning to appear.
    
The agency is forecasting this year's bloom to sit at 5.5 on its severity index.
    
That scale is based around the 2011 bloom scare which was given a measurement of 10.
    
The algae bloom in 2015 topped the index at 10.5