At least we can see it coming unlike those folks living around Sunda Strait in Indonesia.
OMG, so true kuya. I am still in disbelief of how quickly that wave moved in with no warning. So tragic
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We are pretty lucky here in PH with the arrangement of the islands... I think they would help to prevent such a large, powerful wave from coming without notice. BUT, warning people, especially in the provencal coastlines would still be a challenge.
Oh, and, nothing says that Windy is correct or any better of a forecast than the models that WeatherPH or PAGASA are using. There are 3 main forecast model methods, ECMWF 9km, GFS 22km, NEMS 4-12km, and ICON-EU 6km. It just comes down to which model(s) are being used.
According to Windy "most weather sites use GFS model because it's free and available, while ECMWF must be paid." Windy has both available, but defaults to ECMWF because they say "studies show ECMWF is most accurate forecasting model". I highly recommend Windy because of all the options. It was started by a kite and helicopter pilot (hence the name), and provides multiple surf swell, wave predictions, sea temp, fog, dust, ozone, high/low clouds, etc...
But at anyways, I've always been interested by weather. I sure get a lot more weather to track and try to predict here in PH than I did back in Arizona.