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| Snippet From Windy.com Showing Some Info You Will Want. |
Along the bottom of the display you will see a time/day marker. You can run through several days by clicking on the triangle on the left, or select a particular time and day by clicking on it. You can also view the data in a table form as shown below.
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| Snippet From Windy.com Showing Tabular Wind and Wave Data. |
You get the table by clicking on the label on the map - in this case I clicked on St. Lucie. You can get additional areas by zooming in more on the main graphic display. I know you can get Vero and Fort Pierce too.
One more thing to consider is the models they use for the predictions. The table above was generated using the ECMWF model. You can also choose the GFS or HRRR models. You can see all those listed on the bottom right of my first example shown above. and the ECMWF indicator at the bottom of the second example.
Putting all that together you have a pretty good replacement for the MSW charts. You can also get the tide data from windy.com, but I won't go into any more of tha now. It will probably take a little time to become more familiar with that. I'll try to provide a decent summary when it is important.
I was very familiar with the MSW charts and how they translate to beach conditions. I even knew when they were likely to produce errors. It will take me a little time to achieve that level of familiarity and comfort with the windy.com displays as it relates to beach conditions.
Now to the most important part - the tropical system that could have developed in the Gulf, which you may have been hearing about on the TV weather, is not going to improve beach conditions very much if the windy models are correct.
If you look at the table above (whoops I cut the left side of the table off so you could see the numbers) shows that the wind and waves won't change much on the Treasure Coast until Monday, and then the waves are listed as only around four or five feet. The ECMWF model shows the most optimistic case for beach detecting, although not much, while the other two models show smaller waves and winds.
At least the system that failed develop provided a little practice for using the windy.com and I'll be that much more prepared for the next system.
Here is what the NHC says about the current system in the Gulf.
Environmentalconditions appear marginally favorable for additional development
over the next day or so, and a short-lived tropical depression or
storm could form over that time span as the system meanders over the
northeastern Gulf of Mexico. However, by this weekend environmental
conditions are forecast to become unfavorable for additional
development as the system drifts southward, likely remaining
offshore over the Gulf of Mexico. An Air Force Reserve Hurricane
Hunter aircraft is scheduled to investigate the system later today,
if necessary.
Regardless of development, locally heavy rainfall could occur over
portions of the Florida Peninsula through this weekend. ---
Here is a fun web site that lists the major war supply contracts for WWII. You can select a company and see what they produced for the war effort. There was a contract to produce boats/vessels by a boat company in Fort Pierce, a contract in Orlando to produce tugboats, and a Pensacola contract to product metal drums. Of course, the industrial regions of the north produced much more, but it is an interesting web site to browse. I ran across some interesting facts while browsing that site.
The commitment to the war effort was amazing. I don't believe we could win a war like that today because of the division and lack of patriotism in the country.
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Good hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net