Looking for recent weather conditions for the center of the Gulf of Mexico for the early morning hours of Saturday 3/12/2011.
LAT LONG of 28dN and 88dW for 1am on 3/12/2011 would be a good starting point.
I my Wife and lots of friends where on a cruise ship that I believe had mechanical problems. I want to make sure that it could not be attributed to high seas. IOW’s I need a cite.
The ship we where on averaged 11.5 knots for a 32 hour period making us very, very late to port causing us to have to get a hotel, and miss a flight.
If it was mechanical, and not weather, we can get reimbursed.
Have you played around with NOAA’s National Buoy Data Center database yet? For example, here is a text list of observations made by the BP Thunder Horse production platform, at 28.191N, 88.496W. The linked observations currently go back to 1/31/11, and show wind speed, direction, wave height, wave period and temperature.
Very good. Thanks Gray Ghost. Looks pretty calm for last Saturday. Wave heights less than a meter. Certainly nothing that would bother an 800 foot ship. I’ll look at other Bouy’s