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An ill wind blows
3:12 pm
Tue October 26, 2010

Big midwest storm similar to storm that sank Edmund Fitzgerald

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Today's midwest storm
Credit Screen grab from the Weather Underground / weatherunderground.com
Today's storm is similar to the one that sank the Edmund Fitzgerald on November 10th, 1975.
The storm that sank the Edmund Fitzgerald
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The storm that sank the Edmund Fitzgerald
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The storm passing through the Midwest today has a similar look to the storm that sank the Edmund Fitzgerald on November 10th, 1975.

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.

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