Hurricane Irma is creating such a stir that it is pulling water from the shorelines of some of the areas caught in the hurricane’s crosshairs.
Irma is sucking water from shorelines and pulling it into the eye of the storm as it charts a path to the Florida coast. A Twitter user posted a video Saturday afternoon showing what appears to be a dried out shoreline somewhere in the Bahamas.
“I am in disbelief right now…” Twitter user @Kaydi_K wrote in a tweet that included a video of a person strolling through what appears to be a shoreline that was once underneath several feet of water. “This is Long Island, Bahamas and the ocean water is missing!!!”
I am in disbelief right now… This is Long Island, Bahamas and the ocean water is missing!!! That’s as far as they see #HurricaneIrma wtf pic.twitter.com/AhPAonjO6s
— #ForeverFlourish (@Kaydi_K) September 9, 2017
The wind on Long Island in the Bahamas moved from the southeast to the northwest Saturday afternoon, which is causing the water to blow away from the shoreline. Most of Irma’s power is coming from a confluence of the cell’s unusually low pressure and the warm water in the Atlantic — the hurricane’s low pressure is sucking water away from the shore.
Angela Fritz, a meteorologist and science editor at The Washington Post, wrote in a blog post that she has hear about this sucking phenomenon in the past but has never before witnessed it.
“As a meteorologist, there are things you learn in textbooks that you may never see in person,” she wrote. “You know they happen theoretically, but the chances of seeing the most extraordinary weather phenomena are slim to none.”
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