Charlotte Pier today! 7-28

[Donna]

   

MONSTER WAVES:

Check out this photo of waves crashing around the Charlotte Pier - almost taking two people with them!

Photo courtesy: Jim Montanus  WHAM ABC 13 News, Rochester

[patsy6]

I looked at the Charlotte pier and the Summerville pier when I got home from work today and saw some of the same type of waves.  The first thing I thought of was that this storm is a nor'easter, the only type of storm that will create whitecaps like that on this portion of the lake's southern shore.  Nice that I can now think of a cute little falcon while we're getting pounded with wind, rain or snow from the northeast! 

[Donna]

I looked at the Charlotte pier and the Summerville pier when I got home from work today and saw some of the same type of waves.  The first thing I thought of was that this storm is a nor'easter, the only type of storm that will create whitecaps like that on this portion of the lake's southern shore.  Nice that I can now think of a cute little falcon while we're getting pounded with wind, rain or snow from the northeast! 

GO NOR'E!!!  LOL

[MAK]

I looked at the Charlotte pier and the Summerville pier when I got home from work today and saw some of the same type of waves.  The first thing I thought of was that this storm is a nor'easter, the only type of storm that will create whitecaps like that on this portion of the lake's southern shore.  Nice that I can now think of a cute little falcon while we're getting pounded with wind, rain or snow from the northeast! 

I've seen the waves on the eastern end of Lake Ontario bigger than these at times throughout my childhood when my parents owned a summer place on the shore near Pulaski,NY. We had a lot of fun diving into them and trying to jump over them! Good times they were!! 

[valhalla]

How shallow is the water along that shore?  Shallow meaning less than 50 feet?

[patsy6]

As you can see from the map at http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/data/bathy/ont_bathy.gif Lake Ontario drops off fairly quickly.  Bear in mind that 20 metres is about 65 feet.  While it comes in 4th of all the Great Lakes in maximum depth, it is second only to Lake Superior in average depth.  

[valhalla]

Thanks - shallow enough to generate that short chop with a good fetch.