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...Chicago by 2 feet in the last hour indicates that a seiche is affecting the water levels of Lake Michigan." Many people had never even heard of a seiche, so no one paid attention-until the Chicago Tribune splashed headlines about it the next day. A seiche (pronounced saysh) occurs when an approaching thunderstorm pushes water away from a large enclosed body of water's shorelines. But after the storm passes, the water swiftly returns in the form of a wave. Sort of like a tsunami. Last weekend's Lake Michigan seiche occurred over a roughly 60-min. period...
Best guess, however, seemed to be that the disturbance was a seiche (pronounced saysh)-that is, an oscillation in the water caused by an area of rising barometric pressure adjoining an area of falling pressure. The pressure difference would create a sort of hill and valley in the lake surface, and the big wave with its followers would result from the water's effort to resume a horizontal surface. A similar seiche, subsequently described scientifically in Naval Institute Proceedings, rose in Lake Erie off Cleveland some years ago, caused several deaths...
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