{"id":6962,"date":"2012-11-07T15:16:04","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T15:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/?p=6962"},"modified":"2021-11-10T16:46:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T20:46:44","slug":"buoys-record-tall-great-lakes-waves-during-sandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/buoys-record-tall-great-lakes-waves-during-sandy.htm","title":{"rendered":"Buoys record tall Great Lakes waves during Sandy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buoys in four Great Lakes recorded large waves as Super Storm Sandy hit the East Coast, according to the Detroit News.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A Canadian buoy in Lake Huron recorded peak average wave heights of 23 feet at 1 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 30. \u00a0Lake Michigan had the second highest waves with 21.7 foot waves 43 nautical miles east-southeast of Milwaukee. \u00a0In Lake Erie, average wave heights hit 14 feet, 16 nautical miles northwest of Loraine, Ohio. \u00a0A buoy 70 nautical miles northeast of Marquette recorded peak average wave heights of 10.5 feet on Lake Superior.<\/p>\n<p>No wave data was recorded by Great Lakes ships as they were all at safe harbors waiting out the storm. \u00a0It is unknown whether average wave heights reached record levels.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Image: A 3-meter discus buoy like those used to measure wave heights in Lake Erie (Credit: NOAA)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buoys in four Great Lakes recorded large waves as Super Storm Sandy hit the East Coast, according to the Detroit News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,7],"tags":[346,349],"class_list":["post-6962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lakes-reservoirs","category-news","tag-lakes-reservoirs","tag-technology"],"remote_post_permalink":false,"remote_post_featured_image":false,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Buoys Record Great Lakes Waves During Sandy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Buoys in four Great Lakes recorded large waves as Super Storm Sandy hit the East Coast, according to the Detroit News. 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