New website offers real-time Apostle Islands wave conditions June 28, 2021 6:33pm Text size Copy shortlink:
DULUTH – A new website offers real-time wave conditions for Lake Superior s Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.
WISC-Watch, infos.cee.wisc.edu/wisc-watch, shares information from seven spotter buoys deployed throughout the islands, Chequamegon Bay near Ashland and Siskiwit Bay near Cornucopia. The buoys monitor wave height, water temperature and wind information.
Water conditions around the 22 Apostle Islands vary widely because of their sheltering effects, fast-moving storms and changing winds. The area, popular with kayakers and sailors, is known for unexpected currents and waves taller than 10 feet under certain conditions.
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What it’s like to kayak the most dangerous Great Lake
Paddlers in Wisconsin’s Apostle Islands National Lakeshore live by one simple mantra: “The lake is boss.”
The steely waters of Lake Superior surround the Apostle Islands, located off the Wisconsin shoreline.
ByStephanie Pearson
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With a reputation for fickle weather, ravaging storms, and an average water temperature of 42 degrees Fahrenheit, Lake Superior is fierce and unforgiving. It’s no wonder that experienced sailors and kayakers consider it the Mount Everest of freshwater boating.
At 31,700 square miles, Lake Superior is the largest lake in the world by surface area, holding three quadrillion gallons of fresh water enough to cover North and South America a foot deep. Its shoreline is shaped like a wolf’s head and sprawls 2,726 miles across Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ontario.
BAYFIELD, Wis. (AP) The striking ice caves on Lake Superior will not open this season. Officials at northern Wisconsin’s Apostle Islands National Lakesh
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