In November 1905, Lake Superior erupted into one of its most violent storms, later known as the Mataafa Storm. Hurricane-force winds, towering waves, and freezing temperatures overwhelmed ships caught ...

Monday marked the 50th anniversary of the loss of the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald to the storms of Lake Superior, a tragedy that reflects harshly on the impotence of humans and their machines before ...

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The powerful storm system that’s forecast to bring blizzard conditions to the Upper Peninsula and unfurl high winds across the state could also whip up waves on Lake Superior that rival record-setting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gale force winds so intense they could match or exceed the level that sunk the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975 are expected across the ...

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald freighter sank in Lake Superior during a storm in 1975, killing all 29 crew members. Only a handful of people have ever visited the wreck, either by submersible or, in one ...

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 ...

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 ...

Do-not-travel warnings already are being issued for a storm that could set some impressive 2-day snow totals. Winds up to 70 mph are forcast.