From rain to snow to driving winds and arctic cold, the Christmas-week blizzard has brought with it just about every kind of crummy weather you can imagine to a large swath of the U.S. As of Friday, ...

The massive storm system enveloping much of the country in high winds and precipitation was causing extreme weather events nationwide Friday, from hurricane-force winds on a New Hampshire peak to a ...

Powerful winds over Lake Erie on Dec. 29 caused major shifts in water levels, with waves carrying water so high and far that they exposed some of the lake's floor beneath in a phenomenon known as a ...

A seiche in Lake Superior piled water into Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, on Thursday in an unusual but not unprecedented weather event. The seiche (pronounced “saysh”), a sloshing of the water in the ...

A rapidly strengthening storm this past weekend that ultimately became a bomb cyclone Monday unleashed blizzard conditions, tornadoes and a rare surge of water across the Great Lakes and Midwest.

The strong west wind we had Monday created a standing seiche (pronounced “sash” with a long “a”) on Lake Erie. The wind pushes the surface water from west to east across the lake and the water piles ...

In recent days, parts of Lake Erie have experienced a rare seiche as a result of winds and winter weather, even showing the bottom of the lake in places like Put-In-Bay. A seiche (pronounced saysh) is ...

What is a seiche? Here's the science behind the wind-driven Lake Erie effect To stream WTOL on your phone, you need the WTOL app.

According to the NWS, this phenomenon, known as seiche, happens several times a year, mainly during the winter months. The recent effect at Put-in-Bay is connected to the high southwestern winds on ...