Warnings: Monster storm may take Great Lakes wave heights to 33 feet
Source: Detroit News
October 28, 2012 at 11:22 pm
Warnings: Monster storm may take Great Lakes wave heights to 33 feet
By Detroit News Staff and wire reports
After Hurricane Sandy makes its way up the Atlantic on a collision course with two other weather systems that could turn it into one of the most fearsome storms on record in the United States, the Great Lakes are expected to feel the effects of the monster storm.
The National Weather Service predicts the outskirts storm now barreling up the Eastern Seaboard to push into the region, bringing rain through Wednesday.
A gale warning has been issued for Lake Huron from 4 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday, with waves expected to reach a maximum of 17 to 24 feet. The NWS in Chicago on Sunday issued a gale warning for Lake Michigan, predicting waves as high as 33 feet by Tuesday. Vessels are advised to seek safe harbor.
"As that storm moves inland, then we'll have the stronger rain bands come over on Tuesday and Wednesday affecting our area and also picking up the winds," said Debra Elliott, an observation program leader with the NWS station in White Lake Township.
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Just incredible!
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I am absolutely kidding about that. I so hope this is a complete dud, unfortunately it looks like it could be the real deal this time.
My thoughts go out to everyone that is touched by this storm. 
There is a inward facing point on the breakwall that focuses and reflects large wave with the right combination you can get spectacular launches of tons of water....sometimes they engulf the entire breakwater lighthouse...(it is made of riveted steel...)
Here is a picture 15' to 18' feet in Newport Beach, CA 'The Wedge'
This place does get bigger and very dangerous...
Want L A R G E R, of course
Here is a place that has some of the biggest waves in the world
Cortes Bank is a shallow seamount - a barely submerged island in the North Pacific Ocean. It is about 100 miles (166 kilometers) west of Point Loma San Diego, USA, and about 50 miles (82 kilometers) south-west of San Clemente Island. It is considered the outermost feature in California's Channel Islands chain. At various times during geologic history, the Bank has been an island - depending on sea level rise and fall. The last time it was a substantial island was around 10,000 years ago during the last ice age. It is quite possible that this island was visited by the first human inhabitants of the Channel Islands - most notably San Clemente Island, whose seafaring residents would have been able to see "Cortes Island" from high elevations on clear days.
In the early 1990s Larry Moore, photo editor at Surfing magazine, and Mike Castillo, veteran surfer and pilot, made flights out across the bank on rumors of giant waves - and during a monster swell in 1990 that has been dubbed "The Eddie Aikau Swell," they were astonished when they found empty waves breaking atop the bank in the 80 to 90 foot range. By 1995 Moore had seen and photographed waves and that year he led an expedition with a small group of surfers out there (including Surfing magazine editors Sam George and Bill Sharp) and pro surfer George Hulse. The team found relatively small but very glassy waves in the fifteen foot range, and George Hulse was the first to catch one. "It was the only time I wrote out a will before a surf trip," Sharp said of the mission.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortes_Bank
In 1988, the Redondo Beach pier and Huntington Beach pier were victims of two storms. Waves were crashing on top of the piers. Both piers are over 25' high!
"The gales of November".....
well, I guess the gales of October would work also
I'm from Cleveland and have endured 6 decades of jokes, although I moved out of state over 30 years ago. When I left, a friend gave me a t-shirt with the city skyline and the text "Cleveland - you've got to be tough".
Brian Sipe was a hearththrob
I remember seeing him at training camp and my heart was all aflutter!
I remember one game I went to at the old Memorial Stadium where we were in the very last row in the upper deck in the coldest weather ever. Everyone was passing flasks back and forth. I didn't even care who won. I just wanted to go home.
Yep. I remember the Press too. Use to read the sports page with Chuck Heaton.
My son started his route when he was 10 and did it for 5 years. He got up at 5:00 AM every single day for 5 years. On Sundays it would take him two trips on his bike since the paper was so fat on Sundays.
I was one of the first girls in my senior class to be bold enough to wear levis to school. They were just starting to allow it (1967).
Oh, and I had a Beatles haircut too.
I was a bit of a rebel even back then.
There - I've given away my age
My first job out of high school was as a "Girl Friday" (remember that term?) and one of my duties was to walk to the downtown area of the small town where the firm was located to buy donuts for the staff every morning. Of course, I walked in high heels too! About a mile. No wonder my feet hurt every day
And don't get me started on the sexual harassment we endured in a firm of three sleazy lawyers.
oh...wait....wrong movie......
