Sentence examples for long fetch from inspiring English sources

Because of the long fetch from New Bern and the fact that the Neuse River narrows here, there can be outstanding chop and swell at this launch.

The waves here in a NE may be the biggest and cleanest on the outer-banks due to the long fetch from Diamond Shoals; likewise for the shore-break.

"I am anticipating similar or even slightly higher wave heights tomorrow, due to the combination of different atmospheric pressure systems and the long fetch across the Atlantic in which the waves can build up".

"I am anticipating similar or even slightly higher wave heights tomorrow, due to the combination of different atmospheric pressure systems and the long fetch across the Atlantic in which the waves can build up". On Monday, there were snowfalls over upland areas of Scotland and northern England, including Cumbria.

The two main meteorological factors contributing to a storm surge are a long fetch of winds spiraling inward toward the storm, and a low-pressure-induced dome of water drawn up under and trailing the storm's center.

The Fitzgerald sank at the eastern edge of the area of high wind where the long fetch, or distance that wind blows over water, produced significant waves averaging over 23 feet by 7 00 p.m. and over 25 feet at 8 00 p.m.

Because of an ability to shoulder more debt, such pooled-resources acquisitions have long fetched higher prices as a multiple of operating results than have single-buyer deals.

First editions of the author's 1922 modernist masterpiece have long fetched high prices.

In the central Outer Banks, NC, where the strongest sustained winds blew across the longest fetch; Irene damaged 76% of bulkheads surveyed, while no damage to other shoreline protection options was detected.

The local oscillation maximizes if surface wind blows over the longest fetch to Tacloban.

Deviations in the directional wind speed predictions were found to correspond with the length of the sea fetch: For smaller sea fetches WAsP seems to slightly over-predict the wind speed, while for long fetches of more than 30 km an under-prediction is found.