Everybody's going surfing,
surfing Wisconsin style.
Hidden near the base of the power plant in Port Washington is some of the best surfing along Lake Michigan.
On Monday, after overnight storms brought powerful winds and cold rain, surfers raced to the coast as soon as they could to catch the swell.
“When the conditions are good, you gotta be on it. So that’s why a lot of people will just drop what they’re doing and go surf," said Chris Ganski, a pastor at City Reformed Church in Milwaukee.
Because the lake is smaller than the ocean, the best waves come immediately after the storm, no cyclone half a world away generating the swells the way it works in California or Hawaii.
Right now, surf season is peaking on the lake. Beginning in the fall, typically, storm systems bring cold air and strong winds that create some of the best, albeit windy, conditions of the year.
Surfers will hit the lake into the winter, though some will drop off as the water temperatures continue to fall.
And if you wipe out, the water is unsalted and free of sharks.
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