Ferry sailed past, wake perpendicular to wind. Cool interference pattern!
Guess the title says it all today ;-)
Just kidding. Below you see a movie of a neat interference pattern I observed this morning. The situation is similar to yesterday in that the ferry has sailed past and the wake runs up on those bathing steps. But: today it’s quite windy and the wind waves’ crests are perpendicular to the crests of the ferry’s wake. Check it out:
That’s the kind of stuff I loooove watching! Happy New Year, everybody, may there be plenty of wave watching in 2019!
P.S.: Am I the only one who always wants to write fairy when writing about ferries? :-D
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Barry A. Klinger says:
Great example of the difference between swell (though in this case from a wake rather than distant wind-driven waves) and local wind-driven waves.