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Detail from NOAA nautical chart 12300 showing the Nantucket Shoals in relation to Nantucket Island.. Nantucket Shoals is an area of dangerously shallow water in the Atlantic Ocean that extends from Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, eastward for 23 miles (37 km) and southeastward for 40 miles (64 km); in places water depth can be as shallow as 3 feet (0.91 m). [1]
The National Weather Service issues a similar high wind warning (Specific Area Message Encoding code: HWW) for high winds on land. The criteria vary from place to place; however, in most cases, the warning applies to winds of 40 miles per hour (64 km/h) to 73 miles per hour (117 km/h) for at least 1 hour; or any gusts of 58 miles per hour (93 km/h) to 114 miles per hour (183 km/h) on land.
OPC's Ocean Forecast Branch issues warnings and forecasts in print and graphical formats for up five days into the future. Over 100 forecast products are issued daily. They cover the North Atlantic Ocean from the west coast of Europe to the U.S. and Canadian east coasts, and the North Pacific Ocean from the U.S. and Canadian west coast to the ...
Hurricane Ernesto continued to send powerful swells toward the U.S. East Coast Monday afternoon, generating "dangerous" beach conditions as the storm moved further out into the Atlantic Ocean ...
Ernesto's expanding winds will push on the ocean surface and create large swells that will spread outward f Dangerous rip currents from Ernesto turn fatal along US Atlantic beaches Skip to main ...
In 1966, four English singers calling themselves The Master Singers released a record of "The Weather Forecast" [29] which was a typical Shipping Forecast sung in Anglican chant. The Creative Commons-licensed artist Cakeflap's song, "The Bakery Is Open", [ 30 ] contains a mock version of the shipping forecast, with several areas and weathers ...
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Marine weather forecasting is the process by which mariners and meteorological organizations attempt to forecast future weather conditions over the Earth's oceans. Mariners have had rules of thumb regarding the navigation around tropical cyclones for many years, dividing a storm into halves and sailing through the normally weaker and more ...