Weather! Remembering the Edmund Fitzgerald

If you’ve liked the weather in Richmond over the last two days, you’ll like the rest of this week, too. High temperatures on Wednesday and Thursday will be a couple degrees cooler than early this week due to some clouds over the area, but will still reach the low 50s over the next two days.

November 10, 2010; 7:39 AM • by Weather Dan

Today is November 10th, and 35 years ago tonight the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a November storm on Lake Superior, claiming the lives of all 29 hands aboard. Here’s a handful of links about the wreck:

• Wikipedia, which is a pretty good overview of the event
• Information about the ship, the event, and the recovery from the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum
• A list of memorials to the Edmund Fitzgerald
• The meteorology behind the event

And, of course, the requisite Gordon Lightfoot video.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgI8bta-7aw[/youtube]

To put this in perspective, according to Wikipedia (I know, I know), there have been 28 ships lost at sea this year, and over 200 people have lost their lives at sea this year.

If you’ve liked the weather in Richmond over the last two days, you’ll like the rest of this week, too. High temperatures on Wednesday and Thursday will be a couple degrees cooler than early this week due to some clouds over the area, but will still reach the low 50s over the next two days. Overnight, clearing and radiational cooling will drop temperatures into the upper 30s.

Right now, this pattern looks to continue into the weekend, with virtually zero rain chances at the moment. I’ll have an update on Friday.

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