As salty sea captains can attest, winds and waves can appear out of nowhere on the open sea.
EXTREME WAVES The world’s biggest waves and fastest winds may be getting even bigger and faster, a new analysis of roughly two decades of satellite data suggests. Changes in wave heights between 1985 and 2008 (largest increases shown in red), for example, reveal that waves at higher latitudes seemed to peak more than equatorial waves.
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