The altimeter measured no less than 59 foot waves in the same pass.
And the seas rose up against the heathen leftists and washed clean the lands of the deep state Obamites.
Only the righteous with red necks, those who love Zion, were spared and knew the skills of how to flourish in the midst of the wrath of the divine.
And so there is no blue wave of the heathen, only the wave of righteous Zion, 55 cubits high , assuring the purification of the land of rainbows.
Where do the hummingbirds go in a hurricane?
Yikes!
Holy cow!
Hurricane plus deep waters equals large waves.
I have no idea how big the waves were in Typhoon Tilda (September 1961), but the USS Princeton had to ride it out at sea. The fantail came out of the water and the screws cavitated. Huge waves broke over the flight deck. The air speed indicator on the flight deck was pegged at 100 knots.
“That’s 83 feet from peak to trough and ties a world record.”
Doesn’t the dangerousness of a wave depend on how far the peaks are from the valleys which would determine the slope of the waves and thus how much the waves would affect a ship?
For later......
Arr, there be sea serpents the size of skyscrapers there be!
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All I can say an a non-surfer is “SURFS UP AND UP AND UP”!
Take the ride of a lifetime and hope you survive to make it on the video circuit.
I hope all boats have cleared the area.
Impressive wave heights-— seen in storms in the open ocean, such as in the North Sea. The key to the ability of high winds in concert with water movement direction... is the depth of the water that can be affected by super strong winds. Old submariners could tell about this (at least the declassified depths, perhaps)— and this in a hurricane is then affected by the warmth of the water, updrafts etc that create the cyclonic winds in the first place- water depth affects this more as a result.
As Florence approaches the coast (and one can see this on good NOAA maps in color relief) it will encounter shallower (relative to the open ocean 700 miles off shore). There are differences in the continental margin between for example Cape Hatteras that has a single huge escarpment that goes sharply shallow to the shelf from 2500 meters at 100Kilometers out to the edge of the Cape (the shelf) from a depth of 4000 meters(12kfeet) at 400 kilometers out. If the storm were to come straight in at Cape Hatteras— one could see such waves if the water remains warm enough- as in the Gulf Stream still close by— coming straight on shore (and probably no more Cape Hatteras- that depth 100 KM off shore is why the fishing is so phenomenal).
The opposite is true off SC coast south from Wilmington where the rise of the sea floor is in gradual stages from 5K meters depth 800 Kilometers out, stepwise to 3K meters at 600KM out, then slopes up to 1200 meters at 400KM and then a long plateau to the shelf from 900 meters to 500 meters 100 kilometers out— very wide “shallower” plateau.affecting the wave formations differently, and dramatically. Like the “shelf” way out to sea off Hawaii that the giant wave surfers get towed by a jetski to catch 80 foot waves that then dissipate moving into deeper water.
nhc.noaa.gov has graphics showing how high the surge up the rivers is forecast-— all the way into Kinston NC with plus 6 feet surge (if it comes at high tide-— whoah- add that in).
Nature is awesome— period.
Recent study of the Carolinas is interesting, esp. for deep sea fishers: https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/explorations/ex1806/welcome.html
Prayers are continuing
“That’s 83 feet from peak to trough and ties a world record.”
With that kind of Pipeline, - Long boards rule!
Um yeah. 83’ waves from a Cat 2 hurricane. And they say we Texans have “tall” tales