28ft ‘Monster’ Waves Pummel Lake Superior in Historic Great Lakes Swell (Video)

The footage shows some wild and woolly conditions on Lake Superior, with waves hammering the coast in angry, stormy fashion. It comes from February 18th, but it seems as if this past winter season was a particularly feisty one, in general, in terms of waves.

Per the local news outlet, Michigan Live, reporting back at the end of December:

“The powerful storm system that’s forecast to bring blizzard conditions to the Upper Peninsula and unfurl high winds across the state could also whip up waves on Lake Superior that rival record-setting heights measured nearly a decade ago.

“The forecast calls for waves approaching 28 feet on Lake Superior by Monday morning. The largest waves ever recorded on the Great Lakes were 28.8 feet. Those were measured in Lake Superior between Marquette and Munising on Oct. 24, 2017.

“For comparison, the National Weather Service models have said the Lake Superior waves on the night the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in 1975 were in the range of 25+ feet.”

28 feet for a lake is no joke.

Back in November, a behemoth of a wave was captured breaking on Lake Michigan. It crashed over a lighthouse, and that lighthouse stands at 67 feet, with the tower itself being 44 feet. So, yeah, when compared to the wave incoming, that’s no ankle-slapper.

Big wave surfing on the Great Lakes one day? It’s certainly possible.