Weather! Remembering the Edmund Fitzgerald

Today is November 10th, and 35 years ago tonight the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a November storm on Lake Superior, claiming the lives of all 29 hands aboard.To put this in perspective, according to Wikipedia (I know, I know), there have been 28 ships lost at sea this year, and over 200 people have lost their lives at sea this year.

If you’ve liked the weather in Richmond over the last two days, you’ll like the rest of this week, too. High temperatures on Wednesday and Thursday will be a couple degrees cooler than early this week due to some clouds over the area, but will still reach the low 50s over the next two days. Overnight, clearing and radiational cooling will drop temperatures into the upper 30s.
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