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Rip Current Threat Into Next Week At The Shore
Posted: (July 11, 2008 07:14 pm)
Despite Hurricane Bertha being over 1000 miles from Philadelphia the threat exists for rip currents this weekend and early next week along the Jersey and Delaware coastlines.
Rip currents are a strong flow of surface water that pulls out seaward from the shoreline. These currents can develop when waves or swells originating from a storm hundreds of miles away reach the shoreline. The energy within these waves and swells breaks and pulls back into the ocean wherever there is a break in the sandbar under the surface of the water, which causes the formation of a rip current.
While Hurricane Bertha will likely cause little damage to Bermuda but will bring gusty winds and high surf to the island, it is likely to stay far enough away from the United States to cause little more than higher surf and occasional high waves.
Bertha is likely to move little over the next few days as it is caught in an area of little to no upper level steering. The storm will likely sit and spin over the open Atlantic until at least the early parts of next week, with some model guidance suggesting a meandering of a week or more possible.
You can check out the Bertha tracker for more information on the storm's current location and future path.
Initially posted: Phillyweather.net
Rip currents are a strong flow of surface water that pulls out seaward from the shoreline. These currents can develop when waves or swells originating from a storm hundreds of miles away reach the shoreline. The energy within these waves and swells breaks and pulls back into the ocean wherever there is a break in the sandbar under the surface of the water, which causes the formation of a rip current.
While Hurricane Bertha will likely cause little damage to Bermuda but will bring gusty winds and high surf to the island, it is likely to stay far enough away from the United States to cause little more than higher surf and occasional high waves.
Bertha is likely to move little over the next few days as it is caught in an area of little to no upper level steering. The storm will likely sit and spin over the open Atlantic until at least the early parts of next week, with some model guidance suggesting a meandering of a week or more possible.
You can check out the Bertha tracker for more information on the storm's current location and future path.
Initially posted: Phillyweather.net
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