And you thought the weather was bad!

[TheBoatman]

This was taken from the Russian weather site?

FROM 75N TO 78N FROM 80E TO 98E
WINDS S/E S 7 TO 12 MS AFTER 021800UTC 17 TO 22 MS
VIS 10 KM AFTER 021800UTC 1 TO 2 KM SNOW SNOWSTORM
TEMP MINUS 30 TO 35 DEGREES

I don't think even Ken would venture out in that?

BTW the 17 to 22 MS is the expected wave height.

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[Twister_Ken]

Mmm. Where's the nearest pub?

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[jimi]

15 miles directly to windward .. about 5 hours in a Twister ..

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[extravert]

At 78N in February with temperatures of -35 I would not expect there to be any sea surface at all. I would expect the sea to be frozen. Is the '7 to 12 MS' and '17 to 22' MS not windspeed in metres per second? These would not be unreasonable values.

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[Twister_Ken]

Not once I've polished the propellor.

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[TheBoatman]

I would have guessed that but it came from a servere wave warning post!

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[extravert]

Still think there is something fishy with any reports of waves there in February...

Kara Sea
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The Kara Sea is part of the Arctic Ocean off northern Siberia, bound by the Kara Strait (West, connecting to the Barents Sea) and the Severnaya Zemlya Islands and the Northern Land Archipelago (East, and the Laptev Sea).

The Kara receives a large amount of fresh water from the Ob, Yenisei, Pyasina, and Taimyra rivers, so its salinity is very variable.

Its main ports are Novyy Port and Dikson and it is important as a fishing ground although the sea is ice-bound for all but two months of the year.


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[TheBoatman]

Try reading it for yourself it forms part of the new GMDSS metarea forecast.

http://weather.gmdss.org/metareas.html

Tell what you think?

Peter

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[extravert]

I looked there but could not find any reference to wave height. I followed the Arctic Ocean link. I noticed that the warning was titled 'High Seas' but I took 'High Seas' to mean ocean areas, rather then big waves.

In our area (Metarea 1) they subdivide the forecasts into 'Offshore' which are the standard shipping forecast areas, and 'High Seas', which are mostly big chunks of the Atlantic, so it seems here that high seas means ocean areas here. Or am I missing something?

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