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LOW WATER
I had never seen or heard this before. On Monday we (in NY) had very high sustained winds and when I read the detail of this warning they were warning about low water in Long Island Sound and in the Bays and Coves---the wind was blowing the water out and thus the "low water". I love learning new things :hatoff:
I have watched it happen at a friend's beach house when a high north wind just blew the water away. It sure messed up the fishing! This was on the island near Sergeant just east of east Matagorda Bay.
I marvel at so many things in nature---many of which are counterintuitive to me. The thought of wind blowing the water out of a large sound or bay is a little difficult to wrap my mind around. I accept that it happens, but I am still struggling with the physics of it :thinker:
Get a bowl of water and blow across the top. You can see how it happens on a much smaller scale.
I have problems understanding how the Moon's gravitational pull causes the tides. It just doesn't seem possible something that far away can move so much water.
I actually did that with my coffee----but I struggle with extrapolating that to something the size of Long Island sound---much less the ocean :dunno:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike
Think of the storm surge caused by hurricanes. Same principle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave Grubb
I accept it happens and certainly high tide warnings with on shore winds is something I have heard before but this was the first for "low water". My problem is not in the believing of it but wrapping my mind around the physics of it. The physics of high tide warnings is easier for me to "compute". In that case, the water is being blown up against a "hard stop"---and it can pile up at the shore. The water required to do that doesn't have to be blown in from many miles away. In this case, the wind is blowing water out of the sound which is more than 120 miles long---think about the huge volume of water being displaced. I need to stretch my mind to accomplish this---again, I am not in denial, I am in a struggle to understand the physics. Keep in mind that this entire force is accomplished by the coefficient of friction at the interface of the wind and the water---two liquids!Quote:
Originally Posted by Phillbo
Wait till the wind turbines alter the global wind currents in our “closed system”.
Will that be before or after the birds are chopped into fodder?Quote:
Originally Posted by CactusCurt
I’m afraid my windows probably kill more birds than a turbine. And what the windows don’t get, the crats do. :shrug: