Showing posts with label Edmund Fitzgerald. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edmund Fitzgerald. Show all posts
Sunday, November 9, 2025

November's heritage: memories and memorials

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It was fifty years ago tomorrow that the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior. Gordon Lightfoot memorialized the tragedy with his song Th...
Thursday, November 10, 2022

November: storms of the season

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In commemoration of the 47th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Minnesota’s Split Rock Light House will be holding a Memor...
Saturday, November 10, 2018

In Memoriam, Edmund Fitzgerald

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Forty-three years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald, with all twenty-nine crew, was lost in Lake Superior. Today the Split Rock Light House will h...
Friday, November 10, 2017

Winter's here. Spring's not far behind. #phenology

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This morning's dog walk took place in a 7℉ temperature, with the wind chill even lower. If we get the more seasonal temperatures forecas...
Thursday, November 9, 2017

In memoriam SS Edmund Fitzgerald #phenology storms

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On this day, forty-two years ago, the ill-fated Edmund Fitzgerald left a dock in Superior, WI. The next day she was in trouble as "......
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

It's not wise to fool with Mother Nature

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A year ago today, we were in the midst of getting ferociously snowed on . Starting late tomorrow we're forecast to get a bunch of rain...
Tuesday, October 20, 2015

No safe port for the storms of climate change?

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My Better Half is at a conference in Duluth for a few days. She reports today that the big lake has "visible whitecaps and breaking w...
Monday, November 10, 2014

Seasonal adjustments

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Although the wind isn't howling yet, today's weather in and around the Twin Cities is a reminder of the storm that sank the Edmund...
Saturday, November 10, 2012

Safe harbor

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© harrington A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are for. Thirty-seven years ago, on November 10,1975, the Ed...