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Conditions were much more comfortable at Beach 1 West on Dec. 7, though the waves weren't cooperating. Samuels, Harmston and the other surfers paddled on the lake at times for 10 minutes or longer ...
The largest known seiche on Lake Erie was a 22-foot event that killed 77 people and dammed Niagara Falls with ice, temporarily stopping the waterfall from flowing. More recently, a 16-foot seiche ...
Heavy "lake-enhanced" snow was forecast downwind from Lakes Erie and Ontario on Wednesday and Thursday, the National Weather Service said in an update, adding that heavy snow was also expected ...
An intense band of lake-effect snow set up Thursday morning over the Interstate 90 corridor off the shores of Lake Erie between Erie, Pennsylvania and Hamburg, New York, causing dangerous driving ...
Lake Erie (/ ˈ ɪr i / EER-ee) is the fourth-largest lake by surface area of the five Great Lakes in North America and the eleventh-largest globally. [6] [10] It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes [11] [12] and also has the shortest average water residence time. At its deepest point, Lake Erie is 210 ...
Lake Erie is particularly prone to wind-caused seiches because of its shallowness and its elongation on a northeast–southwest axis, which frequently matches the direction of prevailing winds and therefore maximises the fetch of those winds. These can lead to extreme seiches of up to 5 metres (16 ft) between the ends of the lake.
Parts of the northern lower Peninsula of Michigan will see heavy lake-effect snow. Heavy lake effect snow will also develop downwind of Lakes Erie and Ontario through Sunday, the weather service said.
An intense lake effect is forecast to bring bands of snow from Lake Erie and Lake Ontario into the Buffalo, New York, region through the rest of the weekend, causing as much as 1 to 2 feet of ...