When I in Awesome Wonder…Michigan’s Golden Coast: Seiche

Have you ever sat in a bathtub and pushed your body back and forth so that the water forms a big wave sloshing from end to end? If you think of Lake Michigan as a giant bathtub the giant wave that forms is known as a “seiche” (pronounced “say-sh”). A seiche occurs when the wind from a heavy thunderstorm like a supercell with extreme barometric changes literally stacks the water ahead of itself against the shore. When the storm front is past, the water sloshes back the other way to hit the...