Between Cape Sabel and the Barron River there is this “white spot” clearly visible from off shore as you cruise north or south off shore a few miles. It looks like sand dunes from a distance which would be very odd for florida. But it is indeed the place were Andrew came out. The white spot is actually dead mangroves bleaching in the sun. We now have the same thing here on the West Wall of Charlotte Harbor. Charley stripped the mangroves. They are dead and turning from grey to bone white.
updated models just coming in are shifting the path slightly east closer to NOLA
not good
current movement looks a little to the right too
That’s so interesting. I took a minute to read up on mangrove forests & what they do. Hurricane Andrew must have been some force to flatten whole groves like that.