Hurricane Irma, you have been horrifying and amazing amazing, and who knew something like this was even possible? God be with the people of the Caribbean who have already suffered Hurricane Irma's wrath and the people of Florida being hit now. This from HuffPost......
OMG!!! LONG ISLAND BAHAMAS DEVASTATION AFTERMATH - OCEAN WATER GONE MISSING -
HURRICANE IRMA 2017
Hurricane Irma is so powerful, it sucked the ocean away from beaches in the Bahamas on Friday.
This natural phenomenon occurs after extremely powerful storms.
Twitter user @Piznack, one of multiple people to share videos of the strange scene, tweeted: “Y’all my family in the Bahamas said Irma sucked up all the water. There’s literally no water. The beach and ocean are gone.”
He tweeted a follow-up video that showed how the water had retreated at a beach in Long Island, Bahamas.
Angela Fritz, The Washington Post’s deputy weather editor, confirmed this phenomenon is real and may occur during extremely powerful hurricanes such as Irma. The storm is so powerful, it can essentially change the shape of the ocean, Fritz said.
“Basically, Hurricane Irma is so strong and its pressure is so low, it’s sucking water from its surroundings into the core of the storm,” Fritz wrote.
“In the center of the storm, where there is extreme low pressure, water is drawn upward. Low pressure is basically a sucking mechanism — it sucks the air into it, and when it’s really low, it can change the shape of the surface of the ocean. As the storm draws water toward the center, it gets pulled away from the surroundings.”
Wayne Neely, a forecaster with the Bahamas’ Department of Meteorology, warned residents of Long Island and Exuma, where water had also reportedly receded from the beaches, to be careful as the ocean returned back to high levels.
“Care must be taken in this case because the water often returns with even greater fury,” Neely said in a Facebook post explaining the phenomenon.
Wayne Neely
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Why was the water receding in Long Island and Exuma during Irma? Now about the water receding....that has happened before in acklins in 1936 and this by the way is not a normal phenomena but has happened several times before but it is due to the hurricane. What happened in this case was that the low pressure of the hurricane pushed down on the water in the eye and eye wall of the hurricane which is a low pressure system at at the center of the storm which gives you the high l...
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People who had seen the water recede in the Bahamas on Friday said the water returned the next day. Irma ripped through the Caribbean Sea and parts of the Atlantic Ocean earlier this week. It is expected to make landfall in Florida early Sunday morning. So far, the storm has killed at least 22 people and displaced thousands more.
Below are more images of the ocean disappearing from beaches in the Bahamas as far as the horizon.
BahamasThese incredible photos were taken by @deejayeasya
The sea went out. The sea came in. #Irma #HurricaneIrma
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