NOTE NEW ISLAND IN MOBILE BAY................
Posted on 09/28/2022 9:59:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
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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.
Must be that First of The Five Chinese Brothers who could swallow the sea.
One of my favorite books as a kid:
This has happened in areas of the Chesapeake. I had a friend who lived on Bay Hundred, and she saw the bay ‘disappeared’ and turned to mud. That would have been at least 50 years ago.
But as the hurricane passes and the winds switch direction, they will get nailed.
The winds ahead of the hurricane blowing westward are pushing the water out to sea.
As the eye passes, the wind direction will come from the west to the east and then push the water right into the coast. That’s when the problems will happen. And if it happens at high tide, the storm surge will reach higher than if it happens at low tide.
There are differences in ocean level amounting to feet visible by high resolution radar all the time. An intense low just makes that change in elevation more profound.
Interesting, isn’t it?
Indicative of a massive hurricane induced storm surge.
I was in Mobile from 94 to 98. Saw the whole bay sucked dry prior to a storm. Offshore winds combined with outgoing tide. When the tide turned, the water came back in very quickly.
Dont disagree
That’s the mechanism
But it means when the circulation overhead driving the winds moves inland, the water will return....with force, since it now has excess potential energy
Mobile bay is deeper now that they have dredged it so larger ships can come in.
There is also a large new island there since they piled up the dredgings in one place and it is a sea bird sanctuary................
NOTE NEW ISLAND IN MOBILE BAY................
Remember reading 5 Chinese Brothers as a kid. Would ha e been cool to see the fish on the ocean floor.
Hmmm...
An opportunity to find some of those guns lost in boating accidents...
Don’t stay out too long..................😉
After Hurricane at Cape Batteries they found a number of old shipwreaks.
My daughter & SIL are in Apopka; another relative in Lakeland who brought her mom, another elderly woman, a brother and BIL around 60. Daughter is essential responder RN, but not due in to work until Friday evening.
Prayers for all.
This happens every time a hurricane passes to the south of Tampa Bay. I remember when all the storms came through back in 04, we could walk under the Bayside Bridge which runs north-south in Pinellas county. It’s not a tidal wave, it’s literally wind pushing the water out. It comes back slowly as the winds die down.
Listening to the radio this morning the news report some parts of Florida have had 5 feet of storm surge and may get as much as 18 feet.
There was a fine rock band called The Five Chinese Brothers. Too bad that they never broke out.
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