Wind and weather conditions on the Great Lakes may create a seiche, an oscillating wave which can be several feet high.
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Seiche
//seɪʃ//
Synonyms for "seiche"
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11 translations across 9 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- seixa noun (standing wave in a lake)
Faroese
1 entries- rennisjógvur noun (standing wave in a lake)
Finnish
1 entries- seiche-ilmiö noun (standing wave in a lake)
German
1 entries- Seiche noun (standing wave in a lake)
Hungarian
1 entries- tólengés noun (standing wave in a lake)
Italian
1 entries- secca noun (standing wave in a lake)
Japanese
1 entries- 静振 noun (standing wave in a lake)
Russian
2 entries- сейш noun (standing wave in a lake)
- сейша noun (standing wave in a lake)
Welsh
2 entries- dygyfor llyn noun (standing wave in a lake)
- ymchwydd llyn noun (standing wave in a lake)
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A seiche is a standing wave oscillating in a body of water.
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If you have observed water sloshing back and forth in a swimming pool, bathtub, or cup of water, you may have witnessed a small-scale seiche.
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Lake Erie is known for seiches, especially when strong winds blow from southwest to northeast. In 1844, a 22-foot seiche breached a 14-foot-high sea wall killing 78 people and damming the ice to the extent that Niagara Falls temporarily stopped flowing.
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