CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The National Weather Service is reporting a seiche on Lake Erie.
The water level on the western basin of Lake Erie near Toledo broke the all-time lowest level ever recorded, the agency said. It noted that the level is still dropping. A seiche is a standing wave twirling in a body of water, according to the National Ocean Center.
The seiche, pronounced say-sh, is occurring because of the harsh winter storm that has settled in Ohio and much of the country. The storm produced low temperatures, high winds and snow.
The National Ocean Center says seiches normally happen when strong wings and fast changes in the atmospheric pressure push water from one end of the body of water to the other.
Lake Erie is known for experiencing seiches, according to a 2018 cleveland.com article. It happens most often when winds blow from the southwest to the northeast.
A major event happened in 1844 when a seiche killed 78 people after it breached a 14-foot sea wall off of Lake Erie.
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