Good One

Should be a good show tomorrow. Up to 22’ waves expected.

http://www.duluthharborcam.com/p/canal-park-cams.html?m=1

Two Harbors to Duluth MN-Duluth MN to Port Wing WI-
413 PM CDT Wed Apr 10 2019

…GALE WARNING IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING…
…STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY MORNING THROUGH THURSDAY
EVENING…

.TONIGHT…East wind up to 30 knots. Gales up to 40 knots. Slight
chance of snow after midnight. Chance of snow late in the night.
Waves 8 to 11 feet. Waves occasionally to 14 feet.
.THURSDAY…Northeast storm force winds to 45 knots with storm
force gusts to around 55 knots rising to storm force winds to
50 knots with storm force gusts to around 60 knots late in the
afternoon. Snow through the day. Freezing spray in the afternoon.
Waves 8 to 13 feet building to 12 to 17 feet in the afternoon.
Waves occasionally to 22 feet.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…East storm force winds to 45 knots with storm
force gusts to around 55 knots easing to up to 30 knots early in
the morning. Freezing spray in the evening. Snow through the
night. Waves 12 to 17 feet subsiding to 9 to 14 feet early in the
morning. Waves occasionally to 22 feet.

so,in essence you are saying if I went up there bobber fishing for something the only time I would see the bobber is when I was on top of the wave and the bobber was below me???
would hi-vis line help??

Depends on how good your eyesight is. Those waves are over 50’ apart.

It’s best to anchor up on a windblown shoreline on days like that.

biggill wrote:

Depends on how good your eyesight is. Those waves are over 50’ apart.

It’s best to anchor up on a windblown shoreline on days like that.

Do ya anchor bow into the wind, stern or sideways?

Ron wrote:

Do ya anchor bow into the wind, stern or sideways?

Just anchor,,,,,,,,,,, at some point in time you will be all of the above.

Spot lock.

Any ice left out there to the south could get stacked up in a hurry.

Dusty Gesinger wrote:

Spot lock.

Does it adjust for elevation change with each wave?

Dusty Gesinger wrote:

Any ice left out there to the south could get stacked up in a hurry.

This morning it was piled more on the Wisco side of Park Point and on the south shore. Nothing along the MN shoreline right now. Check out the Wisconsin Point cam on the same site, you can see its plugged full of ice chunks blown in from the lake.
http://www.duluthharborcam.com/p/wisconsin-point-cam.html

No snow/ice yet, supposed to start around 1, then the real gusts up to around 50-60 mph will go thru the afternoon. Not looking forward to the drive home at 4 today.
The radio/tv stations are warning folks not to go to Canal Park today, but you know there will be plenty of “wave-watchers” out there.

Another million bucks in boardwalk repairs on deck…..

Nice walleye chop right now.

xplorer wrote:

The radio/tv stations are warning folks not to go to Canal Park today, but you know there will be plenty of “wave-watchers” out there.

Ha, just turned on the Canal Cam to watch a couple wander up there. Still standing there as I type this and gotta admit, I’d likely go down there too.

Waves are breaking enough on the Two Harbors breakwater to go over already. I saw a couple wandering around at Canal Park too. I assume they have the lighthouse gates locked already. The waves in the canal itself are just short of rolling over….maybe some have already.

Wasn’t a wind like this but 8-10 years ago we stopped by in July on our way home, east wind blowing a steady 20mph all day so kicking some big waves. Watching the waves crash into the lighthouses and canal walls and sure enough, here come two jetskis out from under the bridge, heading out into the lake to bounce around in the waves.

Watched them get past the lighthouses and bounce around for a good 10-15 minutes before they came in, honestly couldn’t leave cause I didn’t believe what I was seeing, let alone if they’d be safe while doing it. Craziest flipping thing I may have ever seen, what some will do to get a rise outta life.

Any surfers out there today

Recorded a 61 mph gust on the high bridge an hour ago. That will tighten a certain muscle, driving over it with those kind of winds

There’s some ice flow

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http://www.duluthharborcam.com/p/silver-bay-marina-cam.html?m=1

The Silver Bay Marina cam, (same website), is VERY cool! Amazing to see the sea gulls flying around as well.

24 footers in the forecast for later today. Those are Edmund Fitzgerald waves.

I took a walk down in canal park this morning… Wow what a beast the Gitch can be when she decides to roar… I see it multiple times throughout the year every year and it never ceases to amaze me. Videos don’t do it justice.

Great Laker wrote:

Wow what a beast the Gitch can be when she decides to roar… I see it multiple times throughout the year every year and it never ceases to amaze me. Videos don’t do it justice.

That is the truth! I spend a lot of time (or used to anyway) on the big lakes of MN, and every time I see Gitchi get going I’m reminded how tiny LOW/Rainy/MLacs are in comparison.

Man those people hanging out by the wall with those extreme winds are crazy. I was watching it at 345 and they are crazy

Check out the canal cam right now. Holy F!

Weather Channel says the ice that blew in from out in the lake was just formed from the waves breaking on shore and flash freezing, wow! Must be pretty cold there.

Gino wrote:

Weather Channel says the ice that blew in from out in the lake was just formed from the waves breaking on shore and flash freezing, wow! Must be pretty cold there.

I’m gonna call BS on that. Some of those ice chunks were over a foot thick. Some were laying on the edge of the breakwall. It would probably only take a couple hours to go from the apostles to Duluth.

It was 29 when I drove down 21st Ave at 3 this afternoon. No way any of that ice was formed from “flash freezing” other than a little skim.
Those chunks seem to blow in here at least once every year from off the lake with a strong ENE wind.

When Ma and I drove up to Two Harbors on Monday the lake between Duluth and there was full of ice chunks. I would not have run a boat on the lake for all the ice. All of tis just blew back in to shore with the heavy winds. That weather channels knows nothing.

There’s a fishing boat out of Two Harbors this morning on fairly flat water. One laker in the docks and one waiting just outside the dock harbor.

Duluth has five or six waiting to enter the harbor thru the canal. The Walter McCarthy just entered. Man it is crazy to see these 1000 footers digest floes of ice the length of a garage.

Those icebergs look like something out of the arctic.