autumn and ravens: ocean weather...

so, after this whole (traumatic!) waterspout/tornado incident today and the hurricane a few weeks ago, i got thinking about weather and general, and specifically weather at the beach.

i know that weather gets crazy everywhere, and here we dont have tornadoes that often, or earthquakes (though, in the past month we've had both!?)...but weather on the beach is a totally different experience - from fog that goes from non existent to pea-soup thick, temperatures that drop 10 degrees or more in under a mile, hurricanes, nor'easters, etc...and i thought it would be cool to put up a few videos of what the weather is like where i live for our family who doesnt live on the coast. for me, its easy to forget that not everyone has an ocean with storm surges and flooding inlets and rip currents and swells that are incredible on their own, but the effects of that monster on the weather, well - its pretty awesome.

(all pulled from youtube)

(a sudden storm in 2009)

(sea foam!! this is from our recent hurricane, irene!)

(a nor'easter (which in ocmd is usually worse than a hurricane) in nov of 2009 - that's the ocean coming up to the boardwalk! the ocean usually stops about 100 yards from the boardwalk at high tide.)

(flooding after a thunderstorm)

(a washed up humpback that had died at sea.)

(seals - or maybe two videos of one seal - that came ashore last year around 58th street! there were four or five incidents of this last year up and down our coast!)

(a whale and a HUGE school (or, shoal, mike argues) of fish seen from the 19th floor of a hotel - we saw one last summer, too! from up high! pretty incredible)

and because i cant resist - some videos of sharks! i actually know a lot of the people in the second video (the one with all the photos)! all of the fish (and sharks and stingrays!!) in that video are caught FROM THE SHORE...pulled, literally, right out of the surf...where we swim. (did i ever tell you about the skate, or potential shark, i punched last summer?!)