Ice Safety: big wind this Thursday, Sheesh is that a seiche

pdubya · **Joined:** Tue Feb 19, 2013 11:33 am **Posts:** 92

A big west wind is blowing today and here in Amherstview near the mouth of Collins Bay there are 3 foot rollers coming down the North Channel from the west. Windguru says high winds today for at least 24 h, sustained winds 40 kph, gusts 70 kph.
My guess is that this storm will blow all of the ice out of the North Channel from Upper Gap to Kingston by the time it's done.
The good news is that you might be able to launch a boat at Finkel's next week.
This wind storm might temporarily raise water levels at this end of Lake Ontario by something like a foot. This will affect the current in Long Reach. It might also set up a seiche in the big lake as the water sloshes back and forth. The seiche will cause the current in Long Reach to fluctuate over a period of hours. I've seen this effect before when fishing Long Reach. The website below has a good explanation of what a seiche is.

Long Reach has been dicey all year and today's wind storm ain't going to help.

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/seiche.html

SteelKrazee · **Posted:** Thu Feb 27, 2020 12:20 pm

There’s open water on the west side of Long Reach from just south of the cables to as far as I can see south which is Huff’s.

BigMac · **Joined:** Fri Nov 28, 2008 5:18 pm **Posts:** 1383

Took a drive to Finkles at 5pm or so. The wind broke up another half mile of ice or so from Nicholson’s pt towards millhaven but still ice from there to as far west as I could see. The ice is looking bad and could see it heaving up and down at shore from the wave action on the lake. Solid 5-6’ waves in the North channel in front of amherstview at that time. Lots of broken ice chunks headed towards Collins bay.

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DanElliot · **Joined:** Mon Apr 08, 2002 8:59 am **Posts:** 4305

pdubya,
ive seen the effects of a seiche at the very east end of haybay. When we had our trailer at pickerel park and big weather system with gale winds went thru I would see a current at the docks moving east and the water at the back end would be a few feet deeper then by mid day the current has reversed itself and the water levels would drop back to normal

DanElliot · **Joined:** Mon Apr 08, 2002 8:59 am **Posts:** 4305

pdubya,
ive seen the effects of a seiche at the very east end of haybay. When we had our trailer at pickerel park and after a big weather system with gale winds blew thru I would see a significant current at the docks moving east and the water at the back end would be a few feet deeper then by mid day the current would reversed itself and the water levels would slowly drop back to normal

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