Passengers aboard the Norwegian Escape found themselves dodging flying furniture and shards of glass as the vessel encountered high winds.
Passengers onboard the Norwegian Escape found themselves dodging flying furniture and shards of glass while holding on as the vessel encountered high winds Sunday night.
Several injuries were reported and those guests and crew received immediate attention or are being treated by the ship’s medical staff. There was no damage to the ship; she remains fully operational and continues her scheduled itinerary. “It strikes me as a freak thing,” said Jonathan O’Brien, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Mount Holly, N.J. “We’ve seen the video, and it happened not too far off our coastline. But it wasn’t a hugely powerful system.”
A nearby weather balloon sounding shows why winds weren’t expected to be an issue: an inversion. The profile shows temperatures increasing dramatically with height just above the surface. That meant air near the ground and farther aloft were unlikely to mix, and strong winds wouldn’t make it to the surface.A barometer trace from a buoy off Cape May, N.J., shows that the center of low pressure had been passing overhead at that point.
A “depolarization streak” on radar shows ice crystals aligning with the electric field, rather than aerodynamically. pic.twitter.com/S3biOZACjl
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