STORM RIDERS

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Originally Posted by ryansurf1

Thanks Rick...the verbal reminders of yours are always better then the actual....

Not all of the choices we made hitting the beach were the best....should have come in earlier first off....

Sketchy weather is just that...no matter how you slice it....

PBI airport wind sensor about 4 miles away doesn't even show it....

uhm....wrong place...wrong time.

Originally Posted by GK

Hey Ryan, up in Ft. Pierce we got slammed with the same shit around 7:00. Went from a nice 20+ to well over 60 in a matter of seconds. I looked over my shoulder and saw the line moving from the south and figured I had a few more runs. Next thing I new I had the darkest clouds I have ever seen bearing down with a vengeance. I yelled at my buddy and we both hit the beach with enough time to jump on our kites and ride out the freak show!
There were about 10 of us on the beach trying to hold down a ton of gear as the wind took anything that wasn't tied down. We kept thinking it was a tornado but you couldnt turn to look because there was so much sand blowing. It lasted about 15 minutes and then the rain started. One guy was still on the water, and his kite was whipped around like a rag until he pulled his release. The kite blew away and by the time I left he hadn't found it yet. If anyone in the Cocoa Beach area finds a blue and white Takoon 11.5, it belongs to Dale. I'm sure he's quite happy to be alive!
GK

Hello Greg and Ryan,

I saw a shelf cloud off of Key West on TV yesterday. They can look pretty evil. I just came in from a session today a little while ago. It looked like there was a poorly organized one of these things moving up from the south.

Did your clouds resemble any of these photos?


From: http://www.harkphoto.com/


From: fksa.org


From: http://www.boatnerd.com/
If a shelf cloud goes to sea, it can have this appearence from the shore. Eventually the lower cloud ring breaks up into segments.

The shelf clouds can bring major problems hail, microbursts and gusts out the wazoo. More about them at:
http://www.chaseday.com/wind.htm

FKA, Inc.

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Rick Iossi