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Topic: explination of New Wave information from NOAA - FWIW  (Read 2846 times)

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BugBoy

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I stumbled across this handout from NOAA explaining the new wave forecast terminology and reasoning. Thought that it would be good info for those who get their kayaks salty.

https://www.weather.gov/media/marine/Wave-Detail-Handout-WR-PAC.pdf


Captain Redbeard

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Thank you, I found that interesting.


Larry_MayII_HR

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This looks like a good change. It will give detail on each primary swell component - direction and height for each prevailing spectra - rather than one lumped term.

The main change that will take some getting used to is reporting the wave height - it is double the amplitude which was what was reported previously.

Thanks for posting.