Posted on 09/28/2022 9:59:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
VIDEO AT LINK......................
A Twitter video shared Wednesday appears to show the ocean in Tampa disappearing as Hurricane Ian is set to make landfall.
What was once described as a “once in a lifetime tidal event” by NBC News in 2017 during the onset of Hurricane Irma has reportedly occurred again: the ocean along Florida’s coastline is receding rapidly out to sea as Hurricane Ian draws ever closer, as seen in a video shared on Twitter.
Hurricane Irma was the most powerful Atlantic hurricane on record, but the standard set by the enormous 2017 storm may be broken on Wednesday as Hurricane Ian gains strength approaching a Category 5 weather event. During the 2017 storm, meteorologists warned local residents playing on the tidal flats, typically feet under water, that the ocean would return as the eye of Hurricane Irma passed over Florida, according to NBC.
“Storm surge is where strong winds are pushing the water towards the shore. But you can imagine that same force is pushing water away from the shoreline,” storm surge specialist for the National Hurricane Center, Jamie Rhode, told the outlet. “If the wind is blowing offshore, it blows water away from land.”
Severe storms can result in significant pressure changes, according to JSTOR. When the pressure increases, sea level can drop dramatically, resulting in what’s known as a “negative surge,” JSTOR continued. Similar effects are seen during off-shore earthquakes and tsunami events, the outlet noted.
The United States Geological Survey warned Florida residents Wednesday to expect a life-threatening storm surge throughout the western half of the state. The sheer force of the storm could potentially see the ocean breach the dunes and shore breaks, flooding much of Florida’s low-lying inland areas.
No yin without yang.
Other than shipping channels dredged by the Army Corp of Engineers, the bays and intercoastal waterways are no deeper than six feet. Nothing to fret about. It’s normal.
Caused by free-market capitalism, no doubt.
All those folks Who moved to Florida in the past few years are about to experience the down side.
As the storm gets near the shore but still remains offshore, water at the shore is initially drawn out into the storm, and will return later in a storm surge.
De Santis’s fault!
—DNCMedia
Not to worry, it’ll soon come back.
My daughter and her family live in Citrus Springs..............
Same thing happened in Mobile bay back in the 90’s.
All I saw was an old washing machine.....................
Perhaps Obama was standing on the shore commanding the ocean to retreat...
The author forgot there’s no ocean near Tampa?
Well, it DISAPPEARED!...................😜
Actually, it is the low pressure centered at the eye of hurricane that ‘pulls’ water away from the coast, but when it is making landfall all that water comes rushing back as winds push it against the shore
The Weather Channel is predicting 18 feet surge.
We had 15 foot surge with Ivan and it devastated everything in its path.............................
Ummm... no.
It’s reverse storm surge. In this instance, with land to the east, the water is being pushed in on the southern side of the storm and it’s being drawn out on the northern side
It’s not the ocean Kaye, it’s the Gulf of Mexico.
She probably stinks at Jeopardy too.
5.56mm
“Actually, it is the low pressure centered at the eye of hurricane that ‘pulls’ water away from the coast, “
Actually it is the wind.
Fox13 in Tampa (WTVT) has a weather camera at the Brookdale Bayshore (a tall condo building) and the meteorologists told the viewers that the Northeast winds drives the waters out of the of the bay. It isn’t anything due to Glo Bull warming but a hurricane. Big deal...
The one thing I liked about the Atlantic Ocean versus the Gulf of Mexico is that after a storm, even a small one, there is lots of stuff washed up on the beaches to explore, shells, animals, flotsam and jetsam, but on the Gulf there isn’t much but sand.........
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