Sep 15-14

Past-E-Mail: Cam Notes - 2014: September: Sep 15-14
Superior waves in Ontonagon    ...scroll down to share comments
Photos by Frank Jezek
Trees bending    ...scroll down to share comments
Photos by Frank Jezek
Rocking and rolling    ...scroll down to share comments
Photos by Frank Jezek
Harvest Moon    ...scroll down to share comments
Photos by Frank Jezek


By
Mary Drew at Pasty Central (Mdrew) on Monday, September 15, 2014 - 07:57 am:

We covered the storm last week that had Lake Superior all stirred up, but she wasn't only rocking and rolling here in the Keweenaw, as Frank Jezek shows us here in his photos today. These were taken from his yard in the Ontonagon area and you can see that the Big Lake was quite stirred up in that neck of the woods, too. You can tell by the amount of white froth out there that the waves were rolling in quite quickly, with not much interval between them. Frank added that the trees were bent over to 45 degrees all day and they lost most of their beach to the ravaging waves.

After all that wind and mess, the Harvest Moon still made an appearance, so Frank added one more photo for us to enjoy of that big orb in the sky, surrounded by a few lingering clouds. The calm after the storm you might say.


By Shirley Waggoner (Shirlohio) on Monday, September 15, 2014 - 08:09 am:

May Superior is predicting the Winter to come.:<


By Shirley Waggoner (Shirlohio) on Monday, September 15, 2014 - 08:10 am:

oops, that should be 'Maybe'....it's still early for me.


By mickill mouse (Ram4) on Monday, September 15, 2014 - 08:19 am:

sometimes you just have to rock and roll with what comes for winter.;O)


By Alex "UP-Goldwinger" (Alex) on Monday, September 15, 2014 - 08:29 am:

Fierce pix…spring is just 185 days away :-)


By Janie T. (Bobbysgirl) on Monday, September 15, 2014 - 09:49 am:

Amazing wave action going on there! I agree Shirley! We hardly had summer and already fall like weather is happening. No global warming here in Iowa! ha!


By Cindy, New Baltimore, MI (Cindy) on Monday, September 15, 2014 - 11:52 am:

I was there to witness that storm in person. We spent that whole week in the Keweenaw on Big Traverse Bay. Those waves were amazing!!! The weather each day brought different cloud formations, changing colors in the sky, and winds that went from mild to crazy!!! It was wonderful to explore our favorite spots all over the peninsula. We had so much fun!


By FRNash/PHX, AZ (Frnash) on Monday, September 15, 2014 - 02:01 pm:

Just for comparison … Life in "Sunny Phoenix, AZ". From NWS Phoenix:
(click →) "Record rainfall & widespread flooding across Phoenix Metro Area".

(Last weekend, Sunday 9/7/2014.)

They're saying this was a "1000 year flood event"! And as of today there are some neighborhoods in Mesa that are still awash, mainly because the AZ DOT's freeway underpass pumping stations, canals and retention basins were designed for a 50-year flood event!

I have personally experienced three "100-year flood events" before this in over 44 years in Phoenix.


Quote:

"I never saw so much trouble with water until I moved to da desert!"


This where the "normal" annual rainfall is something short of 8"!

In this case, the culprit was Hurricane Norbert moving up the coast of Baja California, and pumping much moisture into Arizona. I guess we can look forward to a repeat performance from Hurricane Odile this week, then tropical depression 16E soon after that. — Maybe I should be building an ark. :-)

Perverse twist of fate: A friend moved from Phoenix to New Orleans (Actually Mandeville, across from NOLA on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain) some years ago, post-Katrina. So now who gets the fallout of hurricanes? Go figure!
By
Alex "UP-Goldwinger" (Alex) on Monday, September 15, 2014 - 03:11 pm:

Stormy summer...that is what the Detroit freeways looked like a few weeks ago.
http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/26257681/your-photos-submit-your-photos-from-august-flooding-2014


By Thomas Baird (Thomas) on Monday, September 15, 2014 - 04:21 pm:

Autumn + Winter are on the way.


By philip odum (Phishinfill) on Monday, September 15, 2014 - 04:43 pm:

winter never left..ice age coming...lol.. great
shots frank..!!!!


By Shirley Waggoner (Shirlohio) on Monday, September 15, 2014 - 04:46 pm:

Well, FRNash, I guess all the water isn't in Lake Superior after all.;>


By Deb S. (Usedtobeayooper) on Tuesday, September 16, 2014 - 08:16 am:

Fabulous photos! It was like that in Duluth, too. My co-worker were vacationing up there and she said you couldn't even breathe out there. Another storm coming in this week. Perhaps a drive to Duluth is in order for the weekend,

We were just talking about the weather yesterday. No summer to speak of here. Global warming has come and gone....well, it's gone, anyway.


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