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NOAA reported that Saildrone was inside Hurricane Milton & it recorded wave heights of 28.12 feet and wind gusts up to 75.95 mph, while being 40 nautical miles from the storm's center (www.youtube.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ok. Seems like great data. Is there any other use inputs? Any comparisons of storms? Or, is it too new?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Saildrones aren't intended as a hurricane monitoring platform. The marine work I am most aware of them used for is multibeaming the seafloor, so my reaction as a seafarer on a research vessel is, "it survived?!?!?" (Also which model?). That's a sea state 7 and Beaufort of 9.

Which should answer your question that yes, there are not much in the way of other data points like this. There might be some other NOAA floats, buoys, and some vessels with weather station data which can report, but having an unscrewed vessel like Saildrone is just starting to be used. Marine research doesn't have the military budgets to just throw things at storms.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

This is why Lemmy is neat. :)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Please add metric dear "earth"science.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

The video used knots and meters. So 66.21 kn and 8.57m.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

You can be the inventor of the 'nautical kilometer'. Now's your time to shine.