Monday, November 12, 2012

11/10/2012 Gales

November 10th brought gales to Lake Superior…37 years ago Lake Superior took the lives of the men on the Edmund Fitzgerald.. My day started off with thunderstorms by time I got into Southern Washburn CNTY there was hail covering HWY 53 for about 1 ½ miles…The rest of the drive North stared some hail and areas of heavy rain….By time I got to Lake Superior there was still some rain, however that pushed off to the Northeast rather fast…The rest of the day was cloudy with drizzle and off and on fog….Winds were out of the Northeast 25 to 35 MPH with gusts up to 43/45 MPH..This set the stage for some very big waves…By early afternoon there was no beach, was all under the waves…The temps were in the 30s for most of the day, they did warm to around 40 right before I was ready to call it a day…Nevertheless it was cold…Somehow I found myself getting nailed not by one wave but three of them big suckers…I was really shocked by how there was hardly anyone out there, I only saw like 4 people all day, which was fine with me as I really wasn’t in the mood to be around people, and didn’t have to answer a bunch of questions…Give me every day like I would be happier!  So it was a great day for me…. Below are some pictures from the 10th. I will add some links to videos sometime later today….











Monday, August 13, 2012

Picture and video links from 08/09/2012

Sorry I’m late in posting this…..
I headed back up to Lake Superior on the 9th of August…..I was watching the forecasting computer models over the last few days and saw there was a likely hood of some wave action…The morning of the 9th I checked a few web cams from up around the Duluth area…Superior was still calm… I got everything packed into my truck (office) and headed North… On the way North I ran into some rather strong thunderstorms from time to time….I knew then the backdoor cold front was close to where I was at and had already pushed through the head of Lake Superior, which was a good thing as I knew the Northeast winds were picking up there….
I got up to the head of Lake Superior around 12:17 PM or so….Waves still not that big, but looking out at the lake I could see that was about to change, and it sure did!
Here some links for the videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOaMIYAlmHY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV00dlyEPLE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSAwDixnXQA
Pictures below....










Monday, July 30, 2012

Some videos

Here is some videos I shot the other day....The lake was so calm...People enjoyed the day near and on the lake....Shot with my new camera!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqcP-zGdfwo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n3V6rEoOYc

July 28 2012 pictures

Below are pictures I took on 07/28/2012...Lake Superior was at peace with her self...