anyone know why this is?
It sounds like they got the storm surge you'd expect from a category 5 hurricane, but the winds were more consistent with a category 3.
Could it just be wave momentum left over from when it was a category 5- once a hurricane goes from 175 mph to 140 mph, does the momentum of the higher waves last a while? Or might the low barometric pressure have allowed the storm to surge higher than the winds would suggest? The barometric pressure was almost always lower than the winds would suggest with this storm.
Mississippi- horrific storm surge, no extreme winds ...
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