http://michiganradio.org en http://michiganradio.org/post/big-midwest-storm-similar-storm-sank-edmund-fitzgerald <p>The storm passing through the Midwest today has a similar look to the storm that sank the <a href="http://www.ssefo.com/">Edmund Fitzgerald</a> on November 10^th, 1975.</p><p>The 1975 storm had an extremely low pressure at its center, which generated winds similar to a category 2 hurricane. The storm in 1975 dropped to 978 millibars (mb) when it passed over James Bay in Ontario.</p> Tue, 26 Oct 2010 19:12:29 +0000 Mark Brush 190 at http://michiganradio.org Big midwest storm similar to storm that sank Edmund Fitzgerald