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Message 6e9c492e-3c03-4db9-b62f-6a5c20fce68b from ABMS_Met_Office sent at 20:14:35 on 2020-08-29
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Urgent Marine Weather Message - Small Craft Advisory in Effect Until Sunday Night
Effective
20:14:35 2020-08-29
Expires
19:14:35 2020-08-30
Description
Fresh winds, associated with the tightening of the pressure gradient, are expected to cause hazardous seas, raising threat level to moderate, at sea, with the potential of significant impacts to the life and property of mariners.
Winds: East-northeast at 22 to 37 km/h (12 to 20 knots; 14 to 23 mph), with strong gusts to around 57 km/h (31 knots; 36 mph).
Seas (significant wave heights): 1.5 to 2.5 metres (5 to 8 feet), occasionally or locally reaching over 3 metres (10 feet). Dominant wind wave period is 6 to 9 seconds.
Potential Impacts: Loss of life at sea; injuries to mariners; financial losses; disruption of fisheries and scarcity of fish products and disruption to marine transportation.
A small craft advisory means that wind speeds of 21 to 33 knots and or wind waves and or wind swells of 7 feet or greater are expected to produce hazardous wave conditions to small crafts.
Instructions
Inexperienced mariners, especially those operating smaller vessels should avoid navigating in these conditions.
Please continue to monitor these hazardous, life-threatening marine conditions. Stay tuned to updates coming out of the Met Office via antiguamet.com and facebook.com/abmetservice.
Contact
ABMS Met Office at 462-3017, if confirmation of this message is needed.
Category
Safety
Met
Transport
Affected areas
Antigua
Barbuda
Urgency / Severity / Certainty
Immediate / Moderate / Observed
Sent by
Dale Destin
Event code(s)
SAME = CEM
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