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Massive Waves Expected Along Great Lakes In New York

Those winds will also wreak havoc with the water on Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. Those winds are going to push the water from ...

The Great Lakes can be more dangerous than the ocean. Here's why.

Experts say the Great Lakes can be more dangerous than the open ocean due to their volatile nature. Waves on the Great Lakes ...

Oh buoy! Runaway research buoy gets data on Great Lakes winter waves

But last winter, a basketball-sized buoy off Muskegon, Michigan, broke free from its mooring. Set up to track temperature and ...
Detroit Free Press

Giant waves are forecast on Lake Huron. How high the waves will get

Strong winds from a clipper system heading for Michigan are expected to create monster waves on the Great Lakes this week. The waters of Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Superior and Lake Erie are ...
Traverse

How Lake Waves Broke Steel and Sank the Edmund Fitzgerald

Large Lake Superior waves crash on the Keweenaw Peninsula near Copper Harbor Michigan. Short-period waves, sudden gales and freezing spray turn freshwater into a death trap on the Great Lakes—a ...

Winter storm to bring 3 waves of snow to millions of Americans

The Weather Channel is alerting Americans to not one, not two but three separate snow storms making their way through the U.S ...
Hawk Central

How a 1975 storm reached its peak fury on Lake Superior, dooming the Edmund Fitzgerald

Weather forecasts from 1975 underestimated the intensity of the November storm that sank the Edmund Fitzgerald. Though more intense November storms have occurred since, improvements in forecasting and ...