ozonepete wrote:Just so everyone here gets the meteorology right going forward, here it is directly from the NHC:
Here's the accompanying text:
Hurricane Approach To Port
In general, hurricanes forecast to make a perpendicular landfall tend to have the smallest amount of FTE. Conversely, systems that are forecast to parallel the coast, as is often noted in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, tend to have larger track errors. Additionally, hurricanes that make landfall within 50-100 NM of a particular port tend to be more destructive than those that approach the port from over land or parallel the coast in the vicinity of the port. Also, ports located in the right front quadrant, based on direction of movement of hurricanes during landfall tend to have higher winds, seas, and storm surge.
Full link: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/prepare/marine.php
Yes that is true when adding surge to it. since the mean wind /wave/water motion would be perpendicular to the coast... however
the strongest winds would be 45 degrees on either side of the 90 degree from the center relative to the forward motion
this is fun lol
