Lake Superior Winter Storm Footage

The last 30 seconds or so is friggin shweet. What a pussy! Lol. I bet the lake throwing big wet ice chunks at you would sting a little, lol.

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Fantastic movie - thanks for posting.

Now where did I leave my surfboard... :-)

Very few if any videos exist of storms out in the lake with 30ft+ waves, because most ships try not to be out with conditions like that. For those size waves the wind would have to be blowing for over 50mph for a day or so. The night the Fitz went down that storm had been raging for ~1.5 days or so with winds up to 100mph+. Scientists estimate at least 50ft rogues occur, & some sailors claim to have seen 70ft waves. Lake Huron has calimed the most boats/ships.

Lake Superior not lake huron but the rest of it is right.

There is an short length old black & white video named (I forget ATM, maybe Lake Superior Storm, but there are several videos psoted with that name so you have to search & search) that shows waves coming onshore off a face cliff in Minnesota otr Michigan's UP. Wave faces on the right are 6 to 8ft and they get much bigger along the wave front to the left of the video where the faces are 20 to 30ft.

probably 4 ft

Probably a tad bit bigger just because I live in Hawaii and I see 4ft waves all the time and they don't move as slowly as these waves do. They break and then wash back. These waves surge in for awhile - which makes me think their face height is 5 or 6 ft.

waves in Hawaii are really fast because Hawaii is a mountain sticking up out of the ocean and they hit at full speed. the waves in this video would be slowed down because the sea floor would only gradually rise up. I'm from Australia, we usually measure a wave from the back so a 4ft wave would have a 5-6 ft face.

In Hawaii we measure waves from the back as well, but over there we say the front is exactly twice the back - since the back of the wave is the wave height without the trough - therefore 1/2 the front height.

So a 4ft wave in Hawaii would have an 8ft face.

I was speaking face height. I think these waves may have face heights up to 6ft or so. I would pay good money to see a video out in Lake Superior when the waves get to 30ft+