Oh, it already has. I grew up about 45 miles south of Duluth. You could be enjoying a nice summer day in the 70s when the wind would shift out of the NE and suddenly it's 50 degrees with a 20+ mph wind. In the 60s, my parents lived briefly on the North Shore (that's what everyone calls the stretch of Superior coast from Duluth to the Canadian border). They had to move after about a month because my older sister and brother had "the sniffles" from being sprayed by the waves every day. And I think they were there in the summer.
The good thing is, if you're camping on the North Shore in August, you can keep your milk, beer, what-have-you in the lake and it will stay cold.
It always feels weird hearing about Superior being cold even in August because the closest big lake to me (Erie) gets to like 75-80 at that point. Much smaller lake though. Not sure I'd want to be on the shore of something like that myself even without taking getting sick into account!
Erie is also, I believe the shallowest Great Lake, while Superior is the deepest. I've gone "swimming" (i.e., I went in, ,went under, and got out) in Superior in August and it felt like a damn Polar Bear Plunge.
Earliest snowfall, Duluth, August 31, 1949
Latest snowfall, Mizpa, June 4, 1935
That seems to cover Commander's comment about using the lakes as a cooler. I never understood my dad worrying about getting ice for the soda and beer when fishing around those parts.
This is actually the lake plotting to take over Minnesota.
Or Wisconsin, which is right across the bridge from Duluth. Maybe it's coming for Walker.
Oh, it already has. I grew up about 45 miles south of Duluth. You could be enjoying a nice summer day in the 70s when the wind would shift out of the NE and suddenly it's 50 degrees with a 20+ mph wind. In the 60s, my parents lived briefly on the North Shore (that's what everyone calls the stretch of Superior coast from Duluth to the Canadian border). They had to move after about a month because my older sister and brother had "the sniffles" from being sprayed by the waves every day. And I think they were there in the summer.
The good thing is, if you're camping on the North Shore in August, you can keep your milk, beer, what-have-you in the lake and it will stay cold.
It always feels weird hearing about Superior being cold even in August because the closest big lake to me (Erie) gets to like 75-80 at that point. Much smaller lake though. Not sure I'd want to be on the shore of something like that myself even without taking getting sick into account!
Erie is also, I believe the shallowest Great Lake, while Superior is the deepest. I've gone "swimming" (i.e., I went in, ,went under, and got out) in Superior in August and it felt like a damn Polar Bear Plunge.
The drive from Duluth to Thunder Bay up Highway 61 is just incredible. My two favorite spots are Tettegouche State Park and Palisade Head. http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_parks/virtual_to…
(That link: "dialup.html"? Really?)
Earliest snowfall, Duluth, August 31, 1949
Latest snowfall, Mizpa, June 4, 1935
That seems to cover Commander's comment about using the lakes as a cooler. I never understood my dad worrying about getting ice for the soda and beer when fishing around those parts.
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