Page 61 - Wave Action News Today

Its going to come awfully close as it gets closer to new england as a 60 mile per hour storm on thursday. itll bring a lot of wave action along the mid-atlantic and the northeast and a considerability amount of rain. right now strorm watches are up from delaware back up through the rockaways in new york. the coastal connecticut area and out along the boston, boston area as well. so were looking at the tropical storm-forced winds being into play, but really the big deal with that is certainly goi...

Middle of the atlantic rather than the united states. heres the cross from where we are with irma and back out here with maria. i will zoom in from puerto rico right through here and all the way to turks and caicos. this will be the double whammy with irma and yes with maria as it turns to the north at 140 and one forecast with one or two hours before a landfall in puerto rico. its 150 miles per hour. jose lost a lot. this is the good news. its still a hurricane. its 75 miles per hour. we will s...

5 1/2 feet in an hour and now we are officially going above ground level and the water is now about one foot above ground level and the forecast is for ten to 15 feet and were now starting in one hour, the water rose five and a half feet in naples. >> thats the kind of thing that makes you wonder. the hotel weve been watching across the street in downtown naples. will those sandbags be near enough for what theyre going to need to keep water out of their lobby? >> not if the storm surge has wave ...

Keys and elsewhere. this large area in red is the area that is susceptible to inundation. thats where we have a hurricane warning and a storm surge warning in effect, which means that there is a high risk of life threatening storm surge. were talking about 6 to 12 feet in this area, and 5 to 10 down in the florida keys and in the southeastern coast of the u.s. >> ed, a friend of mine in new orleans was just reminding me, you talk about 10-foot storm surge. but there is wave action on top of that...

We have this low pressure in the southeast. its going to give it a tug north. it feels that. it likes it. they want to get together, if you will, so it is going to be pulling it northbound. its going to help with the direction of it. >> i want to ask you about the point that you made, which was the historical significance of this. on one hand, the largest evacuation in u.s. history. 5.6 million people. at the same time when it does and if it does make landfall as a category four, it will be a hi...

Most of this area will be under several feet of water with winds gusting to 180, 190, 200 on top of that. it is an absolute recipe for disaster for south florida >> we are two days past a full moon. that means higher than normal tides. the full moon bringing high tide. you get a storm surge on top of that and that will complicate a bad situation for florida. >> yeah, and on top of that storm surge, you have waves on top of that as well. some of the waves are measured in excess of 50 feet. furthe...

The atmosphere, and now its starting to look almost like a tropical storm even a a hurricane. in the 5:00 a.m. advisory we we want from hurricane watches to hurricane warnings. that wasnt really a surprise. we are under a tropical storm warning for areas around galveston and then its a hurricane warning once we get down to corpus christi. this is the area where we take the greatest chance of landfall and the strongest wind. theyre starting tore -- storm surge kills a lot of people. now we have a...

Im not a scientist, but im a keen observer and if sea level rise is occurring, why am i not seeing signs of it? i mean, our island is disappearing, but its because of erosion and not sea level rise, and unless we get a sewall, we will lose our island, but back to the question, why am i not seeing signs of the sea level rise? >> what do you think the erosion is due to, mayor? >> wave action. storms. >> has that increased any? >> not really. i mean -- >> so youre losing the island even though the ...

A crab house business out on the water. and the water level is the same as it was when the place was built in 1970. im not a scientist, but im a keen observer and if sea level rise is occurring, why am i not seeing signs of it? i mean, our island is disappearing, but its because of erosion and not sea level rise, and unless we get a seawall, we will lose our island, but back to the question, why am i not seeing signs of the sea level rise? >> what do you think the erosion is due to, mayor? >> wa...

The water is close to shore. a lot of wave action down there. from here on north right on up through the charleston, south carolina, area. the water is relatively shallow in near the shore. that means as the wind is pushing the water towards the shore, it cannot sink and recirculate but piled up. so, the major damage here is going to be from the storm surge itself. >> i saw reports that there was actually a wave recorded at over 17 feet, about 20 miles off shore. now, thats just a dramatic aspec...