| LI Phil |
| (User) |
| Wed Aug 31 2005 12:34 PM |
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Re: Storm Surge
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you are correct...pretty much the same thing happened last year with ivan...cat iv or v storm surge, even though ivan was "only" a cat iii at landfall...when these huge monsters spin up, they push their surge well ahead of them...this is why also, charley's surge was really only that of about a cat ii, even though he landfalled as a iv...didn't have enough time to spin up a huge surge and was a relatively compact little cane (albeit a strong one)