Pat Shingleton for July 17, 2008
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Rogue waves are rare, gigantic walls of water that rapidly move through the oceans. In 1960, off the coast of Spain, a 90-foot wave hit a freighter in clear weather. The Queen Mary capsized off Scotland from what the captain called, “one freak, mountainous wave.” On July 3, 1992, a wave hit Daytona Beach, Fla., with an 18-foot wall of water that injured 75. These waves are caused by underwater landslides and changes in atmospheric pressure from fast-moving thunderstorms. Researchers from the Universidad de Alcala in Madrid, Spain, developed software to extract wave information from onboard marine radars, offshore platforms and coastal monitoring stations to provide alerts.
Fastcast: Afternoon showers.
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