Holy Crap What a storm

[RIROCKHOUND]

Originally Posted by spence

Looked like a pretty big storm surge with high tide this morning as well...about as big as I've seen it.
-spence

Spence, west passing low pressure (Nor'easter) coupled with a spring high tide (4.7ft predicted at Newport). Add two feet of storm surge on top of that, and the water level is ~7ft above MLLW. Not a hurricane surge, but put some 12ft swells on it and there will be some erosion along the south facing beaches... 2ft is fairly typical for a decent sized nor'easter. Extend it for 5 days and you end up with the Patriots day storm...

There will be a set-down after the storm (most likely) once the Low passes and the NW comes in. Go scout spots at low-tide Sat afternoon, especially up inside the bay... should be able to see some structure if the swells aren't too big to obscure it...

[NIB]

A real soaker also.Over 3.5"s of rain her in NJ..

[spence]

Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND

Spence, west passing low pressure (Nor'easter) coupled with a spring high tide (4.7ft predicted at Newport). Add two feet of storm surge on top of that, and the water level is ~7ft above MLLW. Not a hurricane surge, but put some 12ft swells on it and there will be some erosion along the south facing beaches... 2ft is fairly typical for a decent sized nor'easter. Extend it for 5 days and you end up with the Patriots day storm...

There will be a set-down after the storm (most likely) once the Low passes and the NW comes in. Go scout spots at low-tide Sat afternoon, especially up inside the bay... should be able to see some structure if the swells aren't too big to obscure it...

I guess I just looked at the water under the Sakonnet River Bridge on my way to drop off Griffin, and the water was almost on the road.

That's my yardstick science boy

-spence

[Nebe]

Originally Posted by spence

I guess I just looked at the water under the Sakonnet River Bridge on my way to drop off Griffin, and the water was almost on the road.

That's my yardstick science boy

-spence

Chit.. that means our property over there flooded..