I mean Dennis is coming in at a different angle than Ivan in that it is farther to the east than Ivan was...so if the eye goes over Mobile Bay would that make the east side of the storm worse than Ivan's east side was?
I don't know if I'm even wording this right but I have to stay in this thing and am just wondering...
Does the angle of the storm matter?
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Yes angle matters. Water piles up on the right side...perpendicular to the wind. So an easterly wind on an east west oriented beach drives water northward. If the same beach ran north-south...the surge wouldn't be as bad...even though you would think an east wind would pile more water up.
Water piled up perpendicular and right to the wind direction.
Water piled up perpendicular and right to the wind direction.
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I've hear that one of the worst-case scenarios for a hurricane would be for a category 5 to pass over the keys and come very close to the southwest Florida coast (less than 25 miles) and hug it for a while before going inland. That is based upon the estimated storm surge based on surge maps that have been created that indicate that southeast Florida could have among the most devastating storm surge impacts of anywhere in the country, due to the shallow depth of offshore water and the ability of the hurricane push a huge dome of water onshore there.
I guess that's why I'm much more sensitive about a possible major hurricane impacting that area than somewhere else, like Miami.
Storm surge and flooding from heavy rain are the biggest killers of big hurricanes, not the winds.
I guess that's why I'm much more sensitive about a possible major hurricane impacting that area than somewhere else, like Miami.
Storm surge and flooding from heavy rain are the biggest killers of big hurricanes, not the winds.
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