[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Need a hurricane ping list.

[konaice]

One wonders why such a wave would not have reached shore. What's to stop it?

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

The Sphinx is 65 feet tall? Somehow I thought it was bigger than that.......

[Oldexpat]

From a statistical point of view they are out there.
Hit one of these breaking and it could spoil your whole day.
Once was on a DD that piled into a wave with height of at least 50'. Smashed the bridge glass, tumbled the gyro's, shut down the boilers, and moved MT 51 back about 18".
The only thing that saved us from sailing under was just luck.

[spinestein]

[The waves were bigger than expected, suggesting theoretical models of waves whipped up by hurricanes may have to be revised.]



So the theoretical models about weather and our environment result in a prediction that is found to be inaccurate when real word data is analyzed.

Does this mean that it would be wise to distrust the predictions of theoretical models regarding complex systems such as weather and the environment until such time as genuine data becomes available to analyze?

Just asking.

[ApplegateRanch]

They forgot to put Florida in the graphic.

[taxed2death]

....now where did I leave my sexwax?

;)


(surfboard wax for you peeps who are wondering).