Southeast & Florida Gale Storm, Large Swells Today
Posted by Jeff Gammons on 07 May 2007 at 6:43 am
Tagged as: Florida Weather, Current National
Major low pressure / gale center now developing off of the Carolina’s, and is expected to deepen throughout the day into a monster of a storm offshore. This area of low pressure is forecast to slowly drift southwestward towards the northeast Florida coastal area’s and then sit there a few days. This low pressure center, along with high pressure over the northeast, will put on a tight squeeze play increasing the pressure gradient along the Southeast US coast and all of Florida. Very dangerous boating and beach conditions through mid week, with 25-35mph winds at the coast, and gale force and possibly much stronger well offshore. The Miami National Weather Service noted in their Sunday evening area forecast discussion that it’s possible to have hurricane force gusts on the backside of the low over open ocean. Now that’s pretty impressive!
WITH HIGH WINDS (POSSIBLY TO HURRICANE FORCE) ON ITS BACK SIDE! THIS SETS UP A PERFECT FETCH FOR A LARGE SWELL EVENT FOR THE LOCAL AREA. WAVEWATCH IS NOW SHOWING A 17 FT SWELL WITH A PERIOD OF 13 SECONDS ACROSS THE PALM BEACH WATERS AND 15 FT DOWN THROUGH THE MIAMI-DADE WATERS…
Already this morning, it’s very windy here, with a strong northeasterly flow off the ocean. Gale warning are posted along the Florida east coast this morning for such winds. The winds are expected to remain up during the day and then start to back more northerly late today as the low pressure deepens and retrogrades westward to the northeast Florida coastline. The closer the low gets to the coast, the better the wrap around rain chances will, and hoping for some of that over the next 24 hours.
I plan to cover the beach and very high swells over the next few days, as sea’s expected to reach 13-17ft at the beach. Pounding swells with semi-offshore winds will make for some crazy surf video and photos. Surfers will be loving it the next 72 hours from Cape Fear, NC to Miami, FL. Be sure to check back over the week for updates on the western Atlantic gale storm, Florida high swells and beach erosion issues. I will be posting video and pictures of the event. Not to common to have a gale storm this time of year sitting off the Florida coast. Should make for some interesting weather next few days.
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This weather pattern is insane. It’s an interesting ride, but it is really insane.
Sure would like to see this system become a rain manufacturing plant for north Florida and south Georgia but it isn’t in the forecast. Best percentage for north central is 40% Wednesday. I can say that we’ve been dominated by high pressure and dry air for so long that I had forgotten what a low pressure system looked like. This one is impressive too.
Are there recon flights planned for this tomorrow? I am unsure how to read this on the National Weater Center site. ( I mean in check out the low pressure area
Recon Flights? Man I haven’t heard that in a while!
I hope it becomes a rain maker Gary. I missed out on all that convection on Saturday and Sunday.
The the gale storm does kind of look like a tropical system, although it a cold core low. I hope as it moves westward it gets close enough to give of some rain. One things for sure, the surf is wave up at the beach. Spent some time there today.
looks like it ? I think it is one