ERIE, Pa. (KDKA) – One thing I love is people who use the weather, and there are some people who really use the weather.
People like Jim Samuels in Erie.
He uses the Fall and Winter weather for something you might not think of – surfing on Lake Erie!
Elizabeth: Why would anybody want to surf that time of year?
Ray: Well, let’s ask Jim! Hi, Jim! Why would you want to surf in the fall or winter?
Jim Samuels: Good question! Because that’s when the waves are the best. It’s a window of opportunity when the lake is still warm and there’s cold air the Clippers coming down from Canada, that that cold air has a higher density and moves the waves more. You get bigger waves, and the warm water is more pliable, like, once the water gets down in the 30s, it’s denser I guess, I don’t know, but it just doesn’t seem to be as movable.
