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The Weather Service reports the buoy at the entrance to New York Harbor reached a record 32.5 feet, surpassing the former record of 26 feet set during Irene in August 2011.
Frank2 wrote:TWC mentioned that the highest wave measure in New York harbor was almost 33 feet - that's hard to comprehend but true...
Anyone like myself who's been there knows that usually the harbor does not see anything more than 3 or 4 foot waves, so again a 33 foot wave is hard to comprehend, but it did happen...
Once during my NOAA days we did get an observation during a 1985 or 1986 hurricane of a rouge wave that passed one of the NOAA buoys and measured a height of 108 feet - the amount of energy that's needed to produce these large waves is hard to comprehend...
I'm repeating myself but what happened yesterday and last evening is something for us all to consider quietly...
Frank
MBryant wrote:Frank2 wrote:TWC mentioned that the highest wave measure in New York harbor was almost 33 feet - that's hard to comprehend but true...
Anyone like myself who's been there knows that usually the harbor does not see anything more than 3 or 4 foot waves, so again a 33 foot wave is hard to comprehend, but it did happen...
Once during my NOAA days we did get an observation during a 1985 or 1986 hurricane of a rouge wave that passed one of the NOAA buoys and measured a height of 108 feet - the amount of energy that's needed to produce these large waves is hard to comprehend...
I'm repeating myself but what happened yesterday and last evening is something for us all to consider quietly...
Frank
Forgive my ignorance, but is the wave measured from the peak to trough or peak to sea level? It makes about 16 feet of difference, I think.
wxman57 wrote:
Waves are measured from peak to trough, so a 33 foot wave would be 16.5 ft above MSL for the crest and 16.5ft below MSL for the trough. The black dashed line in the example image below is mean sea level (MSL). Half the wave is above it, half below it.
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Andy_L wrote:Also, just to note, that wave was measured OUTside the harbor, not inside i believe.
Terry wrote:It was measured at the entrance to the harbor. HERE is something I posted from WeatherBug earlier today, which mentions the wave and other records set by the storm. The Weather Service reports the buoy at the entrance to New York Harbor reached a record 32.5 feet, surpassing the former record of 26 feet set during Irene in August 2011.Andy_L wrote:Also, just to note, that wave was measured OUTside the harbor, not inside i believe.
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