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Monster winter storm expected to churn up 50-foot waves in the open Atlantic
Washington Post ^ | January 30, 2017 | Angela Fritz

Posted on 01/31/2017 3:15:45 AM PST by C19fan

A monster winter storm is taking shape along the East Coast this week, and the National Weather Service is calling for 50-foot waves in the Atlantic by Tuesday. That’s not just a shot-in-the-dark — if you add up all of the forecast data, there’s over a 90 percent chance that wave heights will exceed 30 feet. This storm is the same trough of low pressure that dipped into the Mid-Atlantic on Sunday and dropped a few inches of snow in the D.C. area. On Monday morning, the storm was just 1005 millibars — barely a low pressure system at all. But over the next 48 hours, the storm is expected to drop to 968 millibars.

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TOPICS: Weather
KEYWORDS: atlantic; storm
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To: tired&retired
"It was good knowing ya, boys!"


21 posted on 01/31/2017 4:43:37 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: xrmusn

I rode a few gators back in the day in formation crossing stormy seas. It always amazed me watching the Barnstable County LSTs rising up and plunging down, almost disappearing under the spray. And the ironic thing was that they had very “long legs” being diesel ships, and because they could stay at sea for months, they were also used for ELINT platforms places like the Bering Sea, with some spooks and spook containers brought on board. Geez, I always thought that would be some hellacious duty, driving in “gator squares” for weeks at a time in rough seas in an LST....


22 posted on 01/31/2017 4:46:36 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: xrmusn

This will bring back memories for any sailors who experienced a storm at sea in small boys. The weather decks are secured, rig for heavy rolls.

“Navy Ships in Storms”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRizSDoOJa0


23 posted on 01/31/2017 4:53:38 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: rarestia
More credit to John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams for their Atlantic crossings on America's behalf in ships of their day, some of these crossings were in the dead of winter and extremely perilous due to weather and due to patrols by the British Navy.


24 posted on 01/31/2017 5:05:54 AM PST by nathanbedford (attack, repeat, attack! Bull Halsey)
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To: nathanbedford

This might be true, but sailors as far back as the 16th century understood that taking a (far) northern Atlantic passage in the winter was a fool’s errand.

The most common and fastest (sailing) route across the Atlantic from Europe and western Africa is south of the northern horse latitude and west from the Cape Verde islands. Thousands of sailing vessels make this trek every year. That’s not to say they couldn’t come across the northern Atlantic, but combined with frigid temperatures and unfavorable easterly weather conditions, it’s not often something undertaken except by the largest oceangoing vessels.


25 posted on 01/31/2017 5:17:56 AM PST by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

“I hope John Kerry’s not out sailing around in his yacht.”

I hope he is.


26 posted on 01/31/2017 5:21:35 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("Alinsky, you magnificent bastard, Trump read your book!")
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To: Travis McGee

[This will bring back memories...]

Anyone who has ever been aboard a ship in the North Atlantic during the winter will tell you it puts the awe in awesome.


27 posted on 01/31/2017 5:32:13 AM PST by RetSignman
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To: nathanbedford

John Adams (young Quincy, too) crosses the Atlantic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YHl_0P2EJ4


28 posted on 01/31/2017 5:41:49 AM PST by beaversmom
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To: C19fan

Back in 1964 my mom & I were sailing home from Naples to NYC on the USS Constitution. We hit an atlantic storm that pitched the liner so much the water (and my 9 yr old self in my tube) in the pool was running from one end to the other with each wave. It was so awesome! Then they made me get out.


29 posted on 01/31/2017 5:45:15 AM PST by CaptainKip
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To: Travis McGee

Could you imagine if a storm this size were just off the coast of New York City. The tidal surge would create havoc.


30 posted on 01/31/2017 5:50:04 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
I hope he is.

;)

(Has there ever been a bigger douche nozzle?)

31 posted on 01/31/2017 5:53:04 AM PST by beaversmom
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To: xrmusn

LST-1156
Displacement:
2,590 tons (light),
5,800 tons (full load)
Length: 384 ft 0 in (117.04 m)
Beam: 55 ft 0 in (16.76 m)
Draft: 17 ft 0 in (5.18 m)
Installed power:6,000 shaft horsepower
Troops: 395 (15 officers and 380 enlisted men)

That’s a big cork....


32 posted on 01/31/2017 5:57:18 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: nathanbedford
Yep. They didn't know if a crossing would take 3 weeks or 3 months.

In the earlier days of transatlantic crossings, in 16th and 17th centuries, some estimate that ten percent of ships were lost. But they kept coming.

33 posted on 01/31/2017 6:07:55 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: tired&retired

Yes, like Sandy.


34 posted on 01/31/2017 6:10:05 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: octex

That you rode out a hurricane in the open sea on an aircraft carrier is pretty darn noteworthy!


35 posted on 01/31/2017 6:18:11 AM PST by T-Bone Texan (Oh, wait: She's a carpet munching lesbo. Got it. Never mind.)
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To: CaptainKip
the USS Constitution

Waaaaiiit, whaaat? You sailed on Old Ironsides? And there was a pool???

36 posted on 01/31/2017 6:49:07 AM PST by To Hell With Poverty (Refreshing? Trump makes me feel like I just freebased a York Peppermint Pattie!)
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To: tired&retired

That’s a big cork...
= = = = = = = = = = =

No, that is a MUCH bigger ocean.

And yes, it does get angry - like an old man trying to send back soup...


37 posted on 01/31/2017 7:40:23 AM PST by xrmusn ((6/98)" "If you see a civilian in cammies -- bump into him")
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