Water tends to follow the circulation of the storm. This explains why Fort Myers had such extreme flooding. The storm was pushing water onto land, the water is being pushed away from the Tampa area, as the storm moves north, the flow will change and the storm will pull water back towards land.
The center low pressure is 1 to 4 feet of water below average too. The ocean becomes a water barometer and water rushes in to make a hump in the low like a giant barometer. But then the Coriolis effect causes the inrush to actually go sideways and the result is rotation just like in the air above. This is just my hypothesis. The TV weatherman said the wind pushes the water but no, I don't think so. I think that the same low that drives the wind also drives the sea. It's basically an underwater wind that causes storm surge.
Teefinyomouf 0 points 2.6 years ago
The center low pressure is 1 to 4 feet of water below average too. The ocean becomes a water barometer and water rushes in to make a hump in the low like a giant barometer. But then the Coriolis effect causes the inrush to actually go sideways and the result is rotation just like in the air above. This is just my hypothesis. The TV weatherman said the wind pushes the water but no, I don't think so. I think that the same low that drives the wind also drives the sea. It's basically an underwater wind that causes storm surge.