when the waves turn the minutes to hours

In addition, the folks at CIMMS at the Univ.

Interestingly, we can now take modern computer models, and use the initial surface/ upper air data collected in the day before the storm, to see how the storm would be predicted today. Meteorologist Mark Torregrossa has a good discussion of just how stro ng it was, and It set pressure records in the region that still stand today. The map below shows the surface low over the lakes 40 years ago today, but satellite images of the event are poor, since most of the GOES Archives start about 4-5 years later. I remember it well, along with the news coverage and the search for survivors. Numerical models were very low resolution in those days, and they badly missed the intensity of this storm.

His words paint a vivid picture in the mind, that made the song famous as well as the storm. When the large iron ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald disappeared in the wind whipped spray, it took 29 people to their deaths, and a few years later Gordon Lightfoot wrote a popular ballad about the ship and the storm. That storm would not likely be remembered by many 40 years later but for the loss of a ship and a famous ballad. An intense low pressure system was crossing the Great Lakes, with winds gusting to well above hurricane force, and waves the size of mountains. Forty years ago today, mariners on the Great Lakes were hanging on for their lives, and over 200 of them did not succeed.

When the waves turn the minutes to hours