Weather forecasts from 1975 underestimated the intensity of the November storm that sank the Edmund Fitzgerald. Though more intense November storms have occurred since, improvements in forecasting and ...

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DULUTH, MINN — The water in Lake Superior sloshed back-and-forth like a bathtub between Minnesota and Michigan when a storm system caused a tidal-like phenomenon known as a seiche across the region ...

No one was more surprised than Gordon Lightfoot when his ballad "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" became one of the biggest hits of 1976, less than a year after the disaster it commemorates. The ...

Ari Daniel - Host, "There's More to That" Half a century ago, on an unseasonably warm fall day, the freighter S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald set off from the western edge of Lake Superior with a cargo full of ...