Hi. Is there any way to look back on swell direction/size/ wind direction and strength for Hurricane Sandy when she hit NJ?
google my big wet monster...I don't think u can search archives on here,but google will help. from my memory it was a cat 1,once it passed va,a noreaster coming from the west came into center field,meanwhile there was a high pressure out at sea(which means the storm was prevented from going offshore and had to go inland).the 2 merged together,destroyed the mid atlantic and that's basically it.all I remember was I was playing call of duty and the power went out around 3 pm.i took my dog out for a few walks since then,went to the beach,police had it blocked,but the beach is a big place and theres always sidestreets.the dunes in my town where washed away at low tide.still didn't think it wasn't that bad,until around 9 pm I saw the water go from 5 inches to 5 ft in literally 15 minutes.i had telephone poles floating down the block
Dangggg . Thanks Cep. This system is reminding of Sandy a bit but didn't want to waste time surfing a secret spot if the conditions weren't optimal as they were during Sandy.
I don't think nj was surfable... but go on youtube and search hurricane sandy long beach ny,its like a 20 minute video of the beach.u see how the waves go from 2 ft to 15 ft in a matter of hours.it looked like some really good conditions too,it was offshore there,but go check the vid out its worth a watch
Man I cringe when I hear the scientific and emergency management community use that term super storm to describe Sandy. It was hurricane that began to expand into an extratropical storm as it approached the coast. There was no need to coin a new term for a meteorological occurrence was nothing new, except that it devastated a populated shoreline, rather than begin its transition into a massive extratropical system out in the North Atlantic as most of them do, and as Hurricane Grace did in late 1991 right off the coast. But now we have a new term, and millions of climate change enthusiasts have a meteorological event to confuse with actual climate change.
ya, pretty spot on. October is the time of year when we get these massive hybrid systems, when you have a tropical system that merges with a frontal system, typically nor'easter type systems. October and November are the best east coast months in my opinion. Once those frontal systems start dipping down further south, we will see more offshore wind days.
thank you lol. I remember watching all the documentaries after sandy on weather channel,discovery,natgeo .."are these the storms of the future?" lol.nothing happened that science cant prove.when we get hit by a storm like katrina in the northeast where houses are underwater and dead bodies floating by,then id call that a superstorm
