Wave heights are limited by fetch, the distance the wind can blow across the water. Lake Michigan’s largest waves have been measured at 20-23 feet at the south end of the lake, generated by ...

We’ve had some fun surf here and there over the past four days, enough to get our feet set into the wax. Now the wind band we mentioned last week has come to fruition. A small low to the northeast is ...

The combination of the storm along the North Carolina coast and a massive areaof high pressure to the north will create an unusually long fetch of strong,northeasterly winds from the North Atlantic ...