The Weather (2017)

[varoadking]

Hmmmm our airport is still open, wonder why no planes show up? 
My daughter in Orlando did fine, just lost part of their fence.  Her in-laws in Davie did fine too but are pretty sure their vacation home on Islamorada is probably destroyed but they had no illusions if a big storm ever came it would survive since it's on a canal.

My Brother-in-Law said they had the expected high winds where he is in Northeast Orlando, but without yet being on the roof to check for missing shingles, he didn't see any damage at his place...

[Mathguy]

Where is Davie & Islamorada ?

Hmmmm our airport is still open, wonder why no planes show up? 
My daughter in Orlando did fine, just lost part of their fence.  Her in-laws in Davie did fine too but are pretty sure their vacation home on Islamorada is probably destroyed but they had no illusions if a big storm ever came it would survive since it's on a canal. 

[varoadking]

Where is Davie & Islamorada ?

Florida...

[DPMOmaha]

Where is Davie & Islamorada ?

Islamorada is in the middle of the keys.

Davie is near Ft. Lauderdale.

[imref]

Hey skippy, this was the USS Alabama earlier.  I'm not sure exactly when this was taken.  That's supposed to be water around it.

[skippy1999]

Hey skippy, this was the USS Alabama earlier.  I'm not sure exactly when this was taken.  That's supposed to be water around it.

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oh wow, I saw people posting some pics of the water out of the bay but not from that angle, that's unreal

[imref]

oh wow, I saw people posting some pics of the water out of the bay but not from that angle, that's unreal

i was wrong about timing, that was taken at about 6:30 PM eastern time.

[spidernat]

Hey skippy, this was the USS Alabama earlier.  I'm not sure exactly when this was taken.  That's supposed to be water around it.

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I don't know if you guys talked about this phenomenon but I still don't understand how this happens. Can anyone here explain it?

[HalfSmokes]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/09/10/why-water-receding-tampa-bay-irma-approaches/651323001/

Better than I can explain it

[tomterp]

I don't know if you guys talked about this phenomenon but I still don't understand how this happens. Can anyone here explain it?

Wind blows water around quite a bit.  I'm on the water frequently in tidal rivers fishing and you know that if the wind is blowing downriver - say south or southeast for the potomac, all tides will be lower than normal.  Of course the opposite is true too - water blowing in can raise tides quite a bit - we've even seen minor flooding in old town when strong northerly winds bottle up tide and rain runoff from upstream.

I couldn't find a news article but recall a few years ago an old shipwreck in the Anacostia was fully exposed due to an exceptionally low tide caused by strong winds for a sustained period of time in the right direction. 

[spidernat]

Amazing stuff. Gratitude to both HS and turtleboy.

[Natsinpwc]

Not sure if it's for the same reasons but I believe the same thing happens in tsunamis.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

oh wow, I saw people posting some pics of the water out of the bay but not from that angle, that's unreal

I'm guessing if you are posting you made it through OK?  Still have power?

[HalfSmokes]

Not sure if it's for the same reasons but I believe the same thing happens in tsunamis.

Tsunami is the wave pulling the water back, it's a signal to run like hell

[Natsinpwc]

Tsunami is the wave pulling the water back, it's a signal to run like hell

And no week of Tv forecasts to tell you it's coming.

[tomterp]

Amazing stuff.

It IS amazing to me.  How can wind have so much friction on water?  It definitely does though.  Imagine what a 110 mph wind could do versus the 30 mph I might see on a super windy day.

 As soon as I saw that predicted track of Irma up the west coast of Florida I told my wife that they were going to have an effect of the water being blown out away from the shore, then as the storm moved further north, the counter wind was going to have the opposite effect of blowing back in and this would be coupled with the water's natural return to its equilibrium to create a strong storm surge.

A normal tide of a couple feet could exacerbate, or mitigate, this effect depending on when the low and high tides are.

The storm veered a bit inland so I think the effect was muted some but you still saw all those cool pictures and videos people posted.  I wish somebody had video of the water rushing back in, would be great to see.

[tomterp]

Not sure if it's for the same reasons but I believe the same thing happens in tsunamis.

Not the same.  A tsunami is one or a small handful of waves.  A tide blown out can last for hours before it rushes back in.  A tsunami is a wave dynamic, the hurricane was purely wind, perhaps magnified by normal tides.

[skippy1999]

I'm guessing if you are posting you made it through OK?  Still have power?

We were basically the only two counties in Florida not affected by Irma so I'm good, thanks 

After I saw imref's pic I decided on the way home from work to stop at a place on Escambia Bay I like to go to read to see if the phenomen was happening here too and it was, pretty cool

[GburgNatsFan]

So Jose's staying offshore?

[Slateman]

So Jose's staying offshore?

There is so much irony in this

[Natsinpwc]

So Jose's staying offshore?

Headed to Canada. Heard more immigrant friendly there.

[Slateman]

Headed to Canada. Heard more immigrant friendly there.

Another liberal who wants to move to Canada because of Trump. Why doesn't anyone say they're moving to Mexico or Guatemala because of Trump? Bunch of racists up in here.

[Natsinpwc]

Another liberal who wants to move to Canada because of Trump. Why doesn't anyone say they're moving to Mexico or Guatemala because of Trump? Bunch of racists up in here.

No se nada.

[bluestreak]

Another liberal who wants to move to Canada because of Trump. Why doesn't anyone say they're moving to Mexico or Guatemala because of Trump? Bunch of racists up in here.

Maybe they don’t know Spanish??

[Slateman]

No se nada.