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OT: Calling bull**** on an 83 foot wave

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RepTheGables said:
The measurement referenced in OP wasn't made by a NOAA buoy, but by a satellite-based altimeter (which makes quite good elevation measurements). Notice that the wave heights in the pass in question ranged from 59 feet to 83 feet. Those might seem unbelievably large, but the wind-wave interaction at play here makes such values reasonable.

Below is an animation produced using images from the GOES geostationary satellite. Notice that the storm is cyclonic (counterclockwise rotation in the northern hemisphere). The wave measurements in question were made in the storm's northeast quadrant, where waves generated by the storm are propagating in the same direction as the local wind forcing.

Now- the 'trapping' being mentioned. Yesterday, the storm was moving at about 16 mph (a little under 7 meters per second). That's approximately the phase speed (wavelength divided by period) of a deep water ocean wave with a 4.5-second period. In simple terms, the storm is closely following the waves that it's generating, dumping enormous amounts of kinetic energy into the ocean. The 50-80 foot wave heights are representative of this confluence of factors.
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I **** near didn't understand one word of that. But I think you are calling ********* as well.
 
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in other news, how about that filipino president getting his **** pushed in by a cat 5 typhoon that had 180 mph sustained winds as of yesterday

I wonder if he believes in God now?
 
167mph sustained winds gusts at 201

get ready boy.. you're about to find God
 
SnookMagnet said:
Except none of the buoys recorded that.
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I stand corrected, i saw it was an NOAA report and figured it was a buoy. It was a satellite, i have no idea how accurate satellites are during hurricanes but it really doesn't matter anyway.
 
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Awesome isn't the word I would've been using in that video above. I've spent plenty of time in the ocean and it's no joke. In seconds life can be extinguished.
 
Ssoto0055 said:
I’m not even closing the accordion shutters for a cat 2.
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I own a beach house 15 miles south of Wilmington and didn't board up. The wind isn't the problem...it's the water (cringe as I watch it get closer and closer on my security cameras). Fully expect my first floor storage area and elevator shaft to be flooded.
 
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112_cane said:
I own a beach house 15 miles south of Wilmington and didn't board up. The wind isn't the problem...it's the water (cringe as I watch it get closer and closer on my security cameras). Fully expect my first floor storage area and elevator shaft to be flooded.
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Your house on stilts? You should be ok if you are. People have been giving me **** about still wanting to move to the keys since Irma. Look at concrete stilt homes, shuttered up with no gable end roof and metal roof. They did fine.
 
Ssoto0055 said:
Your house on stilts? You should be ok if you are. People have been giving me **** about still wanting to move to the keys since Irma. Look at concrete stilt homes, shuttered up with no gable end roof and metal roof. They did fine.
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yup....my first floor is 14 feet up. The ground floor is concrete slap and just some storage space, stairs and the elevator shaft. Power is now out so I can't see where the water is from my cameras.

The house is only 2 years old and has impact windows etc.... Just nothing you can really do against water/tide/surge. My house is where the white arrow is pointing.

hb.webp
 
Ssoto0055 said:
Your house on stilts? You should be ok if you are. People have been giving me **** about still wanting to move to the keys since Irma. Look at concrete stilt homes, shuttered up with no gable end roof and metal roof. They did fine.
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Traditional stilt houses would look weird intertwined within communities in South Florida but I've always wondered why the design isn't modified and used on some new builds within Dade, Broward and Palm Beach areas that'd could be very vulnerable to storm surge/flooding. I'm sure on new multi-story homes that the stilted area could be covered with a faux exterior. You'd think flood insurers would be all for that.
 
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