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Specifically, on Wednesday, October 27, 2010, buoy no. 45136, operated by Environment Canada, in northern Lake Superior recorded a significant wave height of 26.6 feet (this is average height of 1/3 of the highest waves over an hour), and buoy no. 45002, operated by the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC), recorded a significant wave height of 21. ...
November gale is the formally accepted name of the weather phenomenon. "Witch of November" and its variations are historical maritime and meteorological slang. [7] Derivative names include "Witch Storm", "November Witch", and "Witch gale". November is known in the Great Lakes region as the "month of storms". [8]
The first month of the new year is on average the snowiest in parts of the Great Lakes, Midwest and Rockies, based on the map below produced by Alaska-based climatologist Brian Brettschneider.
Maps of cyclone tracks were included within the Marine Weather Review section. Within or just after the Weather Logs, a list of ship and weather buoy observations with winds greater than gale-force was published until 1995. Summaries from weather ships were replaced with weather buoy summaries in January 1975. [4]
Eight more stations were deployed in the Great Lakes after 1979. In 1995, development of the Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis (DART) system began, with deployment beginning in 2000. Following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and its subsequent tsunamis, additional dart buoys were deployed.
Since the Great Salt Lake never freezes, the lake-effect can affect the weather along the Wasatch Front year round. [23] The lake-effect largely contributes to the 55 inches (140 cm) to 80 inches (200 cm) annual snowfall amounts recorded south and east of the lake, [ 24 ] with average snowfall amounts exceeding 600 inches (1,500 cm) in the ...
Seasonal ice coverage on the Great Lakes has been on a downward trend over the years, according to NOAA research. During the winter season, average ice cover on the lakes has declined by about 70 ...
The Summary. NOAA's winter forecast outlook predicts above-average precipitation in the Northwest and Great Lakes regions. The rest of the country faces either an average or warm and dry winter.