Great lakes weather

Maggieiscrazy said:
10” fresh snow on the ground. Just what I wanted.
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Maybe 6-7" here, the blizzard must have missed me.
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Those wave forecasts are absolutely nuts. When I was a kid I loved to stand on the shore of Saginaw Bay and watch the waves crash on the beach, and those were only about 5'-6'.

I can't imagine watching 22' waves.
 
Great Lakes said:
Good luck to our Lake Erie friendsView attachment 82268
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Thanks but as of right now, this may turn out to be a non-event.
If it lives up to the hype before dark, I'll still try to grab some photos. It may still. We all know that the Lakes can go from calm to deadly in no time.
Fake Weather?

Conditions at 45142 as of
(1:00 pm EDT)
1700 GMT on 04/13/2020:
Unit of Measure: Time Zone:
Click on the graph icon in the table below to see a time series plot of the last five days of that observation.

Wind Direction (WDIR): WSW ( 240 deg true )
Wind Speed (WSPD): 23.3 kts
Wind Gust (GST): 27.2 kts
Wave Height (WVHT): 2.6 ft
Dominant Wave Period (DPD): 4 sec
Atmospheric Pressure (PRES): 29.34 in
Pressure Tendency (PTDY): +0.09 in ( Rising Rapidly )
Air Temperature (ATMP): 44.1 °F
Water Temperature (WTMP): 41.5 °F
Wind Chill (CHILL): 34.5 °F
 
We got about 7". Nice thing was the driveway must have been warm enough to melt a lot of it so plowing was quick.
Boat should go in next week!
 
Phasma said:
20’ waves? Big but not sure 20
https://surfgrandhaven.com/
It takes a second for it to load. Scroll down the homepage and you can see the crazy people kite surfing
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Not enough water depth to generate a 20' wave near shore. I would think those kinds of conditions would occur offshore a bit. Even then, that's a choppy lake on the webcam.
 
If I'm not mistaken, isn't the largest wave recorded on lake Erie 15'? I can not imagine 20' waves. I have been out on 10' and that was something I would never do again. With a west wind all the water on the Western basin will be gone, I hate to see the damage it will cause when it all comes back. It is something I would love to see but I don't want to see at the same time.
 
TonyQSC500 said:
If I'm not mistaken, isn't the largest wave recorded on lake Erie 15'? I can not imagine 20' waves. I have been out on 10' and that was something I would never do again. With a west wind all the water on the Western basin will be gone, I hate to see the damage it will cause when it all comes back. It is something I would love to see but I don't want to see at the same time.
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Lost over 20 inches so far today

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Thankfully, not much happened here. The biggest waves recorded at the eastern buoy were only half of forecasted occasional, and that was after dark. No pictures. Those heights are common a few times per year. Hopefully no one else experienced any damage.
 
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Usually I'd be complaining about the hyper-inflated forecast but I have to tell ya it was nice to see something non-COVID on the TV this week. Relative to the current state of the world our weather people appear nearly rational these days....nearly :)
 
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The surface area of Lake Huron-Michigan is 45,400 square miles.
- One square mile is equal to 640 acres.
- One acre with one inch of water across it equals 27,154 gallons.
- 27,154 x 640 x 45,400 = 788,986,624,000 gallons (that's 789 billion gallons).
- 788,986,624,000 x 15 inch water rise on Lake Michigan-Huron = 11,834,799,360,000 (11.8 trillion gallons).
 
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