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“A ship on the ocean might run 500 miles out of its way to avoid a storm. If you go 50 miles out of your way on the Great Lakes, you’re in somebody’s corn field.” David G. Brown, author of “White Hurricane”, speaking about the Edmund Fitzgerald disaster on Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975; all on board (29) perished.

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Tom Skilling is chief meteorologist at WGN-TV. His forecasts can be seen Monday through Friday on WGN-TV News at noon and 9 p.m.

WGN-TV meteorologists Steve Kahn, Richard Koeneman and Paul Dailey plus weather producer Bill Snyder contribute to this page.