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By 1991, Surfline was providing more than one million phone-based surf reports a year. [10] In 1992, it started distributing surf reports via fax and pagers, before moving on to internet-based services. [12] [14] [16] In 1995 Surfline became an online service, offering live video streams of surf breaks in addition to written surf reports.
Surf forecasting is the process of using offshore swell data to predict onshore wave conditions. It is used by millions of people across the world, including professionals who put their forecasts online, meteorologists who work for news crews, and surfers all over the world.
The brown seaweed that washes up on Florida beaches is known as Sargassum. Once it washes ashore, the seaweed starts to rot and releases hydrogen sulfide gas, which smells like nasty, rotten eggs.
The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt mysteriously shrank in May, knocking us off pace to have the worst seaweed season ever recorded this year. A good seaweed surprise for Florida: Floating mass has ...
An example of a two-day weather forecast in the visual style that an American newspaper might use. Temperatures are given in Fahrenheit. Most end users of forecasts are members of the general public. Thunderstorms can create strong winds and dangerous lightning strikes that can lead to deaths, power outages, [86] and widespread hail damage.
13 million tons of seaweed are bobbing off the coast as this year’s Great Atlantic Sargassum Bloom sets new records. Seaweed mass expands, reaches record tonnage. Messy Florida beaches ...
A 2011 report based the sea's boundaries on several variables including currents, presence of seaweed, and the topography of the ocean floor, and determined that the specific boundaries of the sea were "between 22°–38°N, 76°–43°W and centred on 30°N and 60°W" for a total of around 4,163,499 km 2 (1,213,882 sq nmi). [19]
According to the National Weather Service, over 630,000 people were under high surf advisory with over 10.2 million residents currently living in rip current situations. What are the biggest risks ...