Meteotsunami: Lake Michigan’s deadly ‘freak wave’ of 1954 (from April 2019)

As summerlike temperatures start to arrive, and with the lakefront open again, Chicagoans are likely looking forward to beach season. But that also means meteotsunami season: https://bit.ly/3rUHaLC

In this 2019 video, Marvin Katz, 87, recalls the summer of 1954 when a meteotsunami swept people near Chicago's Montrose Harbor into the water and eight people drowned. Read more about the "freak wave" of 1954 here: https://bit.ly/3dEsLxV

(Video originally published April 25, 2019, by Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)

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