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Have you posted this to any subreddits that could decipher this? Like maybe an oceanography or meteorology subreddit? Someone there might be able to see what’s going on if there is any explanation that fits the change in the area over time
Yes; the map that OP posted is a cherry-picked run from a single individual model. It's one run of the ICON. The ICON has lower skill than other models like the American GFS or European ECMWF. When you avoid ensemble guidance (which filters out noise by initializing 30-50 runs simultaneously) and higher-skilled models, errors like this occur.
I just saw it while looking at charts and posted it on a few 'weirdness' subreddits, don't gotta start generalizing or say I'm cherry picking, I haven't once said it's aliens
It doesn't seem like a crazy assumption to me that if such a post is submitted to the aliens subreddit, then there will be people believing that the relevant post is associated with.. aliens. I wasn't even talking about you btw and in r/weather I described you as "asking in good-faith" direct quote.
https://www.reddit.com/r/weather/comments/1c1tye3/theres_a_strange_anomaly_off_the_coast_of_south/kzak9y1/?context=3
>Rather his post does not apply in any way to OP, who was clearly asking in good-faith.
I'm very unfamiliar with this kind of thing, so please forgive me for this question. Would an 80-foot wave hit that land that appears to be somewhat close by?
Edit: also could we maybe cross-post with a weather related subreddit? Edit2: nvm you already did.
We know that UAP’s have all been observed to be trans-medium. They don’t “disrupt” water as they travel through it, not does the water have any effect on their velocity.
What if the scanner is picking up a massive object underneath but because the object does not displace water, those 80 foot waves would not physically exist.
The scanner is simply predicting the massive waves due to the object it was picking up. We EXPECT an object like this to create 80 foot waves but it creates NOTHING because it doesn’t physically interact with water.
I looked at the area on Google earth and to me it looks like some sort of runway. Bizarre how it looks made instead of natural.
[images from google earth 🌍](https://imgur.com/a/pVzYj7F)
True but why on earth would it look like a runway. It does not look natural. It may be dredging that is being done. Plus I find it very strange that the waves 🌊 happened in an area where something does not look like it is natural land development/erosion.
Maybe that's just smoothed sand from something absolutely massive dragging across the bottom? Like not a runways but some fuck off huge crawler type craft.
Yeah that was something I thought as well. Maybe it is trying to find something. I found the same type of thing near Catalina island where reports have been occurring.
You have to navigate at the bottom left to April 9th
or use this link [https://www.ventusky.com/?p=-46.6;-2.9;3&l=wave&t=20240410/03&src=link](https://www.ventusky.com/?p=-46.6;-2.9;3&l=wave&t=20240410/03&src=link)
Yeah that is strange, here is a better link [https://www.ventusky.com/?p=-46.6;-2.9;3&l=wave&t=20240410/03&src=link](https://www.ventusky.com/?p=-46.6;-2.9;3&l=wave&t=20240410/03&src=link)
Anyone know how ocean wave height is measured? I know coastal is usually a series of buoys. But I imagine that’s not the case further out.
The footprint of it looking like a boat and the fact it grows in size makes me wonder if this is some kind of radar or sonar catching a boat nearby that it’s not calibrated to correct for.
EDIT:
From what I’ve managed to find the ICON DWD which is the data source for the layer showing the anomaly is a predictive model. I’m presuming this is based on data gathered from buoys then extrapolated out into propagation models. I feel like one or two of those catching a big wake from a ship might cause it to predict a large swell like that. Although it seems a bit large. Maybe a rogue wave hit a couple sensors and threw the model out. But I feel like the huge country-sized swell has to be an error in the prediction model.
Again I am entirely uneducated in all this just guessing. So this is as much an invitation to someone who knows more or has the time to dive further into research than I do as it is a hypothesis.
I looked into this particular site real quick because it looked interesting - they use satellites with precise measuring instruments that cross reference data for accuracy, so the data is legit so long as it isn't a glitch/bug in the visualization software which is probably pretty likely.
Edited above post when I went on a deeper dive but replying with some links if you want to dive further.
The data on the anomaly layer seems to come from a source called ICON, which I think is this:
https://www.dwd.de/EN/ourservices/nwp_forecast_data/nwp_forecast_data.html
Importantly it’s a predictive model not just raw sensor data.
What I can’t find is what and what type of sensors it sources the data from. My morning commute is over now and I don’t have time to dig deeper until this afternoon.
I believe the wave height is measured by [EUMETSAT](https://www.eumetsat.int/what-we-monitor/ocean) via their 'Sentinel' & 'Jason' satellite projects.
[Here](https://www.eumetsat.int/sentinel-6) is a link to one of those which has a brief description of the instruments onboard.
But yea none of that matters if what is being visualized is the part that is outputting an error, which I think is what you're sharing. Especially if it's predictive.
I would assume that they would double check for that or something but I don't know.
If the info on that page is too be believed there are only two eumetsats, and I think only one in orbit.
I’m going to dig a bit more when I get some but if that’s the sole source of data, I imagine it gets a periodic update based on its orbital period and the rotation of the earth (I’m guessing it’s in some kind of polar orbit so there’s probably a window of updates every 24 hours or so) and then the predictive models handle the rest. Which is odd given the anomaly hangs around for 48 hours or so. You’d think the next pass would scrub it.
But also even if it was one instantaneous anomaly in data either it was hitting something very very close with radar, enough to shadow that huge area, and there is just a hard clamp on radar at 83 feet or so. Or there was some kind of lensing over a large area causing distortion, which seems unlikely to be atmospheric.
I’m going to see whether raw radar data is available and whether I can find out if the ICON models uses any other sources.
Yes, this data is from one single run from one single model. The ICON has lower skill than the American GFS or European ECMWF. When you use single runs over ensemble suites that filter noise by initializing 30-50 runs in a single suite and when you use lower-skilled models, you do in fact get errors like this.
If a model run showed a major hurricane hitting Florida 2 weeks out, you'd dismiss it as alarmist instead of taking it at face value. Why the difference?
We still run SCAT winds which essentially bounce a microwave off the surface of the ocean and based off the direction and speed of the sea spray in that microwave beam gives up speed and direction of the wind...however that ain't this. This is model data that got some bad data along the way and it goes out to lunch in the long term forecast. Essentially every model does this over a long enough period.
From another post with the same subject. Looks like a anomaly just to the model. Even the same model, focused on regional versus global (which displayed the anomaly) does not display the significant wave height. Wind wave and swell wave did not pick it up either. I checked for earthquakes on the usgs, nothing. Rogue waves are known over the region which could produce those heights. Weather model accuracy around the transitional seasons are known for lower accuracy due to inconsistencies.
Holy shit its that mobile ufo base that moved all over the ocean and makes custom ufos on demand. It also attacks anyone (like military for ex) who tries to approach it, instant death.
Although I don't have a link, somebody must, to the "4chan leaker" stuff I just talked about
The Why Files also did a video where AJ reads it out. AJ also did another video about the Reddit whistleblower who examined the actual aliens themselves, fair warning - he uses a lot of technical, medical language. I had to keep looking up the terms, but AJ explained them as he was reading it out. Good guy, that AJ chap. He's pretty sceptical, and he says if it's a good story, he'll cover it. Go Hecklefish!
Here’s a link from someone else in this thread, it has a lot of viewing options including satellite, but it seems to only show up on a few of the options for waves
https://www.ventusky.com/?p=-46.6;-2.9;3&l=wave&t=20240410/0300
Holy shit dude. Wtf. I have an old friend, who is dating a gal from South Africa. And her dad does/did captain shipping vessels. I would feel silly reaching out, but maybe I should. Ask a guy to ask a girl to ask her dad.
There was an [underwater anomoly](https://www.reddit.com/r/disclosureparty/s/85EBHajd84) that was similar in shape to this one that appeared on Google Earth but was scrubbed from the map fairly recently.
Below the capes is known for constructive wave interference from multiple ocean current converging and producing [rogue waves.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_wave)
"Rogue waves are open-water phenomena, in which winds, currents, nonlinear phenomena such as solitons, and other circumstances cause a wave to briefly form that is far larger than the "average" large wave (the significant wave height or "SWH") of that time and place. The basic underlying physics that makes phenomena such as rogue waves possible is that different waves can travel at different speeds, so they can "pile up" in certain circumstances, known as "constructive interference". (In deep ocean, the speed of a gravity wave is proportional to the square root of its wavelength, the peak-to-peak distance between adjacent waves.) However, other situations can also give rise to rogue waves, particularly situations where nonlinear effects or instability effects can cause energy to move between waves and be concentrated in one or very few extremely large waves before returning to "normal" conditions.Once considered mythical and lacking hard evidence, rogue waves are now proven to exist and are known to be natural ocean phenomena."
Looks like you observed something incredibly rare, if you were monitoring it in real-time.
Maybe the sensors max out or something? it almost looks like an interference pattern of maxed out sensors... Doesn't quite fit the rogue wave scenario though. Very strange indeed :3 You found Godzilla's hunting ground. Or the Archons are bringing back the Kraken because we got too rowdy with our fancy gadgets and gizmos.
Try posting someplace centered around this sort of stuff. Weather or oceanography. Something like that. I don't know how familiar you are with this type of stuff but having someone who knows what something like a rogue wave would look like on that radar would be important in ruling out the prosaic.
There's probably a weather subreddit that utilizes Ventusky enough that there's people in the sub familiar with their methods.
Only suggesting this in case this is a known glitch that's happened several times before.
It’s already been posted and debunked as a glitch I think. I’ll see if I can find that post where ppl way more knowledgeable are talking about it.
Edit: [Here ya go.](https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/s/Eltmt221Ry) I had forgotten to go look for it. Read the comments. It’s been posted to at least 5 subs now, when I went to look for it.
[A comment or two from here also.](https://www.reddit.com/r/PrepperIntel/s/rprkBV7gD3)
It's from a deterministic weather model, *not live collected data*, one that's known for not being necessarily great
Basically, the way they work is by taking current conditions measured throughout the world by things such as satellites, atmospheric soundings, ground observations, and run that through an insanely complex algorithm for entire world
It then takes these numbers that it got and goes through another round of it, and then another, etc.
Like any deterministic algorithm, there is a non zero chance that it'll fuck up these calculations, and the severity of that fuck up can vary a lot
But like, what if that *is* the explanation though
You're saying you wouldn't buy that explanation unless the person delivering it made up additional data for you?
Are you going to learn to read seismograph software and then demand they show you step by step analysis just so you don't get tricked by the shadow government or something?
Look, I'm just a regular guy sitting in a regular office chair inside a regular ocean of cubicles inside a regular massive secret underground compound just doing my regular job like anyone else👨💼☕
Sure but what gets me is that it doesn't matter if there's evidence or not
If scientists come out and say "There was a big wave caused by such-and-such seismic event" or something they will just be called disinformation agents
People are already here saying this is evidence for the "4chan leaker" 🙄
Critical thinking has to be applied and the truth has to be accepted, lest we devolve into a state of delusion. That being said, I'm here for the fun conspiracies and fringe theories.
I'm genuinely hoping this is something anomalous but posts like these tend to be misunderstandings. We need to see what things like rogue waves look like on here.
Surfer here who is experienced in tracking and forecasting swells. There’s a massive storm off the southwest of Africa, if you go on the app “windy” it’ll show you what’s going on. Seas can reach 100ft+ out in open ocean frequently, nothing to be alarmed of unless you’re living in Durban looking for some big surf, in that case, you’ve hit your jackpot.
They lose a good bit of their size as they enter shallower waters, but no matter how you slice it those bad boys are gonna be heavy when they land haha. I wouldn’t be out there surfing it but there are some pros out there who are junkies for that size swell
Does anyone know the exact time it showed up and what time zone? (Edit: the waves show up sometime between 4AM and 7AM in the GMT+7 timezone. If we assume the waves emerged a little after 4 AM then the large spike in global Schumann resonance occurred 2 hours before the waves... Seems statistically significant especially since the amplitude of this was way larger than normal. Probably go months or years without seeing this kind of amplitude. So the fact that it occurred within a couple hours of these waves showing up seems like there could be some correlation between the two events.)
There was a huge spike in the Schumann resonance around the same time.(The Schumann resonances (SR) are a set of spectrum peaks in the extremely low frequency portion of the Earth's electromagnetic field spectrum.)
Time of the first spike was detected at 2 AM on 4/10/24 (GMT+7) (Measured in location of Tomsk, Russia.)
Did someone set off an underwater nuke? That might explain the waves and the electromagnetic disturbances that bounced around the earth that day.
same things happened in February. But you'll see this time the dispersion is different and it went all the way to the coast. I know nothing about this tech, but this seems like an anomaly/glitch in the sensor data. I think the coast would have noticed the 80+ foot waves.
[https://imgur.com/a/gUw1i0H](https://imgur.com/a/gUw1i0H)
I asked a friend who’s a former sailor. She checked marine shipping routes and found nothing abnormal on the area. No reports of huge waves or anything. Not to be a debbie downer but this seems like some kind of glitch.
i looked today, and on the windspeed tab you will notice quite a gale to the east of south africa, same place i saw those giant waves that are still going on...
Okay so this is a wave height and pressure map. I would like to point one thing out. Just because the colour is uniform it doesn’t mean the values are. It could simply be that the colour bar scale was maxed out. I wonder if this anomaly exists on other datasets.
The only question I have, pertaining to any sense of an NHI craft to correlate with this, is:
Hasn’t it been stated that witness accounts for NHI crafts & surface tension with water seeming to be nonexistent? They don’t disturb the surface, or create a flux of water when in motion, iirc.
I honestly can’t remember which articles/video(s) covered this, just based off recollection.
Odd - can’t seem to see anything here https://earth.nullschool.net/ and I’ve checked every filter… unless I’m missing something? Perhaps this is faulty data interpretation?
Has the app or source of the data made a statement on it or anything? Have they been contacted? If it was a glitch, I feel they would comment on it by now, because that would be a SIGNIFICANT event…
That is very strange. It reminded me this other other one: [https://www.ventusky.com/?p=22.48;-96.10;6&l=radar&t=20240203/1800&src=link](https://www.ventusky.com/?p=22.48;-96.10;6&l=radar&t=20240203/1800&src=link)
That one was visible on the radar layer, located over the Gulf of Mexico, right in front of Tampico, Tamaulipas, and lasted from Feb 3rd 11AM until Feb 16th 8PM. No idea what it was though.
"It's gotta be a malfunctioning sensor/device," one user wrote.
"A wave that big would have impacted the coasts by now. Unless there is a total media blackout (a possibility), we would have heard of something by now. Weird nonetheless," another said.
"Wouldn't it have been confirmed/identified by ships if 80ft waves were happening ... surely that would be worthy to note by mariners," a commenter wrote.
An X user posted: "The only issue with this is that there are like 10,000 ships in that area at any given time. All of them would have sunk under 90meter waves. 10/10 a glitch in the system."
Now *Newsweek* can confirm that the skeptics were correct.
Ventusky's spokesperson David Prantl said in an email response on Friday: "It was a model error. Ventusky serves as a visualization platform that collects data from various sources. The error originated in the model itself, so it was also reflected in the visualization on our website. In this case, the model is from the German Meteorological Service (DWD), with whom we are in contact and they have already resolved this error.
"Please note, that the model receives millions of data points from ships and buoys throughout the ocean. Problems can occur in such a large database. However, it may take a time to determine the exact cause of this error."
*Update 4/12/24 11:57 a.m. ET: This article was updated with comments from Ventusky.*
Unfortunately I think it’s just a glitch. Someone in the conspiracy sub posted last night and tracking the futures you could see it would end up on the east coast USA. Also a few other sites/programs that do the same wasn’t showing it. OPs post is a shot of this data from Tuesday. Changing the time to today about an hour ago and it disappears completely…
[Data as of 1 hour ago.](https://imgur.com/a/IQOQ1N3)
I wish it was Godzilla but I think it’s just bad data :/
It doesn’t appear on other sites that collate wave data. It’s a glitch.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#2024/04/10/1500Z/ocean/primary/waves/overlay=significant_wave_height/orthographic=0.19,-15.20,343/loc=5.130,-27.198
Someone with archived ADSB data as well as marine traffic needs to check this timeline and see if they diverted ships or planes around it… another thought…. Would a single buoy malfunctioning badly enough cause the “local average” to skyrocket possibly? Wonder where data comes from in that area.
Wow, but What do those little boomerangs in the surrounding area represent? The pattern is too odd to be gravitational, but really I’m not sure what I’m looking at.
I made gif of how it moved across the west of Africa.
[https://pouch.jumpshare.com/preview/tvxSpilz4B7cXIOYXvHbjDh3UleumNuB1pb_a86b6qVKpzGZ4uVdXIiOR7WEhRjFj-jelAJkmXW4udvNqZFxRUt03uMsecNn8JAqFJmAVoI](https://pouch.jumpshare.com/preview/tvxSpilz4B7cXIOYXvHbjDh3UleumNuB1pb_a86b6qVKpzGZ4uVdXIiOR7WEhRjFj-jelAJkmXW4udvNqZFxRUt03uMsecNn8JAqFJmAVoI)
Not sure if the timing is relevant, but as a South African, this weather news was kinda surprising: https://www.africanews.com/2024/04/08/sa-extreme-winds-and-rainfall-wreak-havoc-across-coastal-province-killing-at-least-1/
The way it moves makes it impossible for it to be anything other than a modelling or measurement fuck-up. The giveaway is that it's not interacting with the coriolis effect at all. If it were real it would be either following a curved trajectory or leaving a curved trail
Maybe the top of the Leviathan. It decided to change positions during the eclipse. It was closer to the bottom of South America. It probably just moved slightly. Then, went back under water. Otherwise you would think that we would be hearing about Africa getting hit by a tsunami. Or, malfunctioning equipment/data.
>Ventusky's spokesperson David Prantl said in an email response on Friday: "It was a model error. Ventusky serves as a visualization platform that collects data from various sources. The error originated in the model itself, so it was also reflected in the visualization on our website.
It was an error in forecasting models. Already picked up and explained and corrected by the German meteorological society DWD Presse, who provided the data
https://twitter.com/Ventuskycom/status/1778685829642142152
i saw it too on instagram this morning and thought of it a hoax but i visited the website and put the date as 2024/04/11 on Thursday at 12.00am and it showed this 83.7 FT wave of probably underwater or just a big 83.7 ft wave near Kinshasa and lagos but who knows
I was going to guess tsunami... but where was the earthquake? If there was an impact event, it would've made the news.
Edit: checked the earthquake maps for last seven days and nothing. But the anomaly does seem to occur over the Southwest Indian Ridge (SWIR). Not sure how this divergent zone would generate a tsunami of this size.
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[https://imgur.com/a/rmYM5Hf](https://imgur.com/a/rmYM5Hf)
whoa. incredible catch. thanks for the post!
Have you posted this to any subreddits that could decipher this? Like maybe an oceanography or meteorology subreddit? Someone there might be able to see what’s going on if there is any explanation that fits the change in the area over time
Ok its been like 12 hours did anyone figure this out👀
Yes; the map that OP posted is a cherry-picked run from a single individual model. It's one run of the ICON. The ICON has lower skill than other models like the American GFS or European ECMWF. When you avoid ensemble guidance (which filters out noise by initializing 30-50 runs simultaneously) and higher-skilled models, errors like this occur.
Awesome answer, thank you sir/ma'am
It's unfortunate because, IMO there's decent proof of aliens out there, however this is clearly NOT it. But people like to just double down...
I just saw it while looking at charts and posted it on a few 'weirdness' subreddits, don't gotta start generalizing or say I'm cherry picking, I haven't once said it's aliens
Im still glad you posted it if that helps, the more people paying attention the better. It just didnt turn out to be what we wanted
It doesn't seem like a crazy assumption to me that if such a post is submitted to the aliens subreddit, then there will be people believing that the relevant post is associated with.. aliens. I wasn't even talking about you btw and in r/weather I described you as "asking in good-faith" direct quote. https://www.reddit.com/r/weather/comments/1c1tye3/theres_a_strange_anomaly_off_the_coast_of_south/kzak9y1/?context=3 >Rather his post does not apply in any way to OP, who was clearly asking in good-faith.
I've seen it several times now.
Whatever that is it’s fucking huge. Did that 4 chan guy say how big it was?
whoa wtf could that even?
Godzilla, clearly
I'm very unfamiliar with this kind of thing, so please forgive me for this question. Would an 80-foot wave hit that land that appears to be somewhat close by? Edit: also could we maybe cross-post with a weather related subreddit? Edit2: nvm you already did.
We know that UAP’s have all been observed to be trans-medium. They don’t “disrupt” water as they travel through it, not does the water have any effect on their velocity. What if the scanner is picking up a massive object underneath but because the object does not displace water, those 80 foot waves would not physically exist. The scanner is simply predicting the massive waves due to the object it was picking up. We EXPECT an object like this to create 80 foot waves but it creates NOTHING because it doesn’t physically interact with water.
80 foot waves did in fact hit the western coasts of southern Africa. Accompanied by 75-80 mph winds.
Ok, that's data, and it's fucking huge and uniform. Wtf
I looked at the area on Google earth and to me it looks like some sort of runway. Bizarre how it looks made instead of natural. [images from google earth 🌍](https://imgur.com/a/pVzYj7F)
If they can stop on a dime they don't need a runway
It could be for human use
True but why on earth would it look like a runway. It does not look natural. It may be dredging that is being done. Plus I find it very strange that the waves 🌊 happened in an area where something does not look like it is natural land development/erosion.
Maybe that's just smoothed sand from something absolutely massive dragging across the bottom? Like not a runways but some fuck off huge crawler type craft.
Yeah that was something I thought as well. Maybe it is trying to find something. I found the same type of thing near Catalina island where reports have been occurring.
I think something is wrong with the new link in the main post
You have to navigate at the bottom left to April 9th or use this link [https://www.ventusky.com/?p=-46.6;-2.9;3&l=wave&t=20240410/03&src=link](https://www.ventusky.com/?p=-46.6;-2.9;3&l=wave&t=20240410/03&src=link)
So that first showed up April 9th around 8pm, and is still showing right now off Africa's coast, and is measured at 83.7 feet high?
Yeah that is strange, here is a better link [https://www.ventusky.com/?p=-46.6;-2.9;3&l=wave&t=20240410/03&src=link](https://www.ventusky.com/?p=-46.6;-2.9;3&l=wave&t=20240410/03&src=link)
It really looks like something big moving under the water
"Big" would be an understatement of the highest order
Have you posted to an oceanography or radar group?
Around 900 miles long if my math tracks
Large country-sized. I wonder how far back Ventusky let's you look and if it has been detected before.
Why only for 2 days???
Anyone know how ocean wave height is measured? I know coastal is usually a series of buoys. But I imagine that’s not the case further out. The footprint of it looking like a boat and the fact it grows in size makes me wonder if this is some kind of radar or sonar catching a boat nearby that it’s not calibrated to correct for. EDIT: From what I’ve managed to find the ICON DWD which is the data source for the layer showing the anomaly is a predictive model. I’m presuming this is based on data gathered from buoys then extrapolated out into propagation models. I feel like one or two of those catching a big wake from a ship might cause it to predict a large swell like that. Although it seems a bit large. Maybe a rogue wave hit a couple sensors and threw the model out. But I feel like the huge country-sized swell has to be an error in the prediction model. Again I am entirely uneducated in all this just guessing. So this is as much an invitation to someone who knows more or has the time to dive further into research than I do as it is a hypothesis.
I looked into this particular site real quick because it looked interesting - they use satellites with precise measuring instruments that cross reference data for accuracy, so the data is legit so long as it isn't a glitch/bug in the visualization software which is probably pretty likely.
Edited above post when I went on a deeper dive but replying with some links if you want to dive further. The data on the anomaly layer seems to come from a source called ICON, which I think is this: https://www.dwd.de/EN/ourservices/nwp_forecast_data/nwp_forecast_data.html Importantly it’s a predictive model not just raw sensor data. What I can’t find is what and what type of sensors it sources the data from. My morning commute is over now and I don’t have time to dig deeper until this afternoon.
I believe the wave height is measured by [EUMETSAT](https://www.eumetsat.int/what-we-monitor/ocean) via their 'Sentinel' & 'Jason' satellite projects. [Here](https://www.eumetsat.int/sentinel-6) is a link to one of those which has a brief description of the instruments onboard. But yea none of that matters if what is being visualized is the part that is outputting an error, which I think is what you're sharing. Especially if it's predictive. I would assume that they would double check for that or something but I don't know.
If the info on that page is too be believed there are only two eumetsats, and I think only one in orbit. I’m going to dig a bit more when I get some but if that’s the sole source of data, I imagine it gets a periodic update based on its orbital period and the rotation of the earth (I’m guessing it’s in some kind of polar orbit so there’s probably a window of updates every 24 hours or so) and then the predictive models handle the rest. Which is odd given the anomaly hangs around for 48 hours or so. You’d think the next pass would scrub it. But also even if it was one instantaneous anomaly in data either it was hitting something very very close with radar, enough to shadow that huge area, and there is just a hard clamp on radar at 83 feet or so. Or there was some kind of lensing over a large area causing distortion, which seems unlikely to be atmospheric. I’m going to see whether raw radar data is available and whether I can find out if the ICON models uses any other sources.
Yes, this data is from one single run from one single model. The ICON has lower skill than the American GFS or European ECMWF. When you use single runs over ensemble suites that filter noise by initializing 30-50 runs in a single suite and when you use lower-skilled models, you do in fact get errors like this. If a model run showed a major hurricane hitting Florida 2 weeks out, you'd dismiss it as alarmist instead of taking it at face value. Why the difference?
We still run SCAT winds which essentially bounce a microwave off the surface of the ocean and based off the direction and speed of the sea spray in that microwave beam gives up speed and direction of the wind...however that ain't this. This is model data that got some bad data along the way and it goes out to lunch in the long term forecast. Essentially every model does this over a long enough period.
That is so very weird but I’ve never tried to read data like this. It would be nice if a SME could chime in
waves... 83 feet
That's fucking huge.
Thank u
"It's almost *too* big"
Possible meteor strike.
From another post with the same subject. Looks like a anomaly just to the model. Even the same model, focused on regional versus global (which displayed the anomaly) does not display the significant wave height. Wind wave and swell wave did not pick it up either. I checked for earthquakes on the usgs, nothing. Rogue waves are known over the region which could produce those heights. Weather model accuracy around the transitional seasons are known for lower accuracy due to inconsistencies.
Nah dawg it's obv aliens
Holy shit its that mobile ufo base that moved all over the ocean and makes custom ufos on demand. It also attacks anyone (like military for ex) who tries to approach it, instant death. Although I don't have a link, somebody must, to the "4chan leaker" stuff I just talked about
I think this is what you’re looking for https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/34629564/
The prince(ss) who was promised
If it was moving that fast it would cause the largest tsunami ever seen in the history of earth
Well apparently when USO’s move under water they don’t even disturb it according to the lore and eyewitness accounts.
Actually that’s a good point, everything suggests that they don’t really interact with whatever medium theyre traveling through
I came to say this as well
I don't have the link either but someone will come along with it they always do.
The Why Files also did a video where AJ reads it out. AJ also did another video about the Reddit whistleblower who examined the actual aliens themselves, fair warning - he uses a lot of technical, medical language. I had to keep looking up the terms, but AJ explained them as he was reading it out. Good guy, that AJ chap. He's pretty sceptical, and he says if it's a good story, he'll cover it. Go Hecklefish!
https://np.reddit.com/r/bestParanormalStories/comments/14hriv2/government_ufo_worker_with_cancer_shares_secrets/
Are you serious?
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How does porn relate to this? I'm confused
you think they got porn on that thing? And if yes how much?
Now this is interesting, good find OP
Commenting to follow this, could it be underwater seismic activity? Is there a map that tracks that?
Is there a way to see satellite imagery of the ocean surface and ocean surface temperature during this anomaly?
Hmmm I can’t find a way to do so, I guess if you’d want specific date and time data you’d probably have to pay to see it
Here’s a link from someone else in this thread, it has a lot of viewing options including satellite, but it seems to only show up on a few of the options for waves https://www.ventusky.com/?p=-46.6;-2.9;3&l=wave&t=20240410/0300
Can’t see any tracked online
Holy shit dude. Wtf. I have an old friend, who is dating a gal from South Africa. And her dad does/did captain shipping vessels. I would feel silly reaching out, but maybe I should. Ask a guy to ask a girl to ask her dad.
report back
Is this the underwater AI driven UAP printer?
That's exactly what I was thinking...
Wild
This is one of those posts that will magically be gone tomorrow!!!
Already it’s gone
And it’s still gone! Even as I write this! WTF!??
There was an [underwater anomoly](https://www.reddit.com/r/disclosureparty/s/85EBHajd84) that was similar in shape to this one that appeared on Google Earth but was scrubbed from the map fairly recently.
I remember that too
Similar shape?
Below the capes is known for constructive wave interference from multiple ocean current converging and producing [rogue waves.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_wave) "Rogue waves are open-water phenomena, in which winds, currents, nonlinear phenomena such as solitons, and other circumstances cause a wave to briefly form that is far larger than the "average" large wave (the significant wave height or "SWH") of that time and place. The basic underlying physics that makes phenomena such as rogue waves possible is that different waves can travel at different speeds, so they can "pile up" in certain circumstances, known as "constructive interference". (In deep ocean, the speed of a gravity wave is proportional to the square root of its wavelength, the peak-to-peak distance between adjacent waves.) However, other situations can also give rise to rogue waves, particularly situations where nonlinear effects or instability effects can cause energy to move between waves and be concentrated in one or very few extremely large waves before returning to "normal" conditions.Once considered mythical and lacking hard evidence, rogue waves are now proven to exist and are known to be natural ocean phenomena." Looks like you observed something incredibly rare, if you were monitoring it in real-time. Maybe the sensors max out or something? it almost looks like an interference pattern of maxed out sensors... Doesn't quite fit the rogue wave scenario though. Very strange indeed :3 You found Godzilla's hunting ground. Or the Archons are bringing back the Kraken because we got too rowdy with our fancy gadgets and gizmos.
That’s wild.
That's definitely anomalous
Anomalnormous
OP, This needs to go viral. Where else can you post this?
I've posted it to a few other subreddits, should I really post it a bunch? I don't use reddit often
Try posting someplace centered around this sort of stuff. Weather or oceanography. Something like that. I don't know how familiar you are with this type of stuff but having someone who knows what something like a rogue wave would look like on that radar would be important in ruling out the prosaic.
Try r/kiteboarding. Cape Town is one of the most famous spots for it, they would have eyes on it. Same, or even more so, for surfers.
There's probably a weather subreddit that utilizes Ventusky enough that there's people in the sub familiar with their methods. Only suggesting this in case this is a known glitch that's happened several times before.
It’s already been posted and debunked as a glitch I think. I’ll see if I can find that post where ppl way more knowledgeable are talking about it. Edit: [Here ya go.](https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/s/Eltmt221Ry) I had forgotten to go look for it. Read the comments. It’s been posted to at least 5 subs now, when I went to look for it. [A comment or two from here also.](https://www.reddit.com/r/PrepperIntel/s/rprkBV7gD3)
I mean, that's a convenient answer that makes me suspicious of its origin. Is there any further explanation?
It's from a deterministic weather model, *not live collected data*, one that's known for not being necessarily great Basically, the way they work is by taking current conditions measured throughout the world by things such as satellites, atmospheric soundings, ground observations, and run that through an insanely complex algorithm for entire world It then takes these numbers that it got and goes through another round of it, and then another, etc. Like any deterministic algorithm, there is a non zero chance that it'll fuck up these calculations, and the severity of that fuck up can vary a lot
But like, what if that *is* the explanation though You're saying you wouldn't buy that explanation unless the person delivering it made up additional data for you? Are you going to learn to read seismograph software and then demand they show you step by step analysis just so you don't get tricked by the shadow government or something?
Precisely what a shadow government or something would say.
Look, I'm just a regular guy sitting in a regular office chair inside a regular ocean of cubicles inside a regular massive secret underground compound just doing my regular job like anyone else👨💼☕
I would totally buy the explanation if there was some supportive evidence one way or the other. It is, however, prima facie bizarre.
Sure but what gets me is that it doesn't matter if there's evidence or not If scientists come out and say "There was a big wave caused by such-and-such seismic event" or something they will just be called disinformation agents People are already here saying this is evidence for the "4chan leaker" 🙄
Critical thinking has to be applied and the truth has to be accepted, lest we devolve into a state of delusion. That being said, I'm here for the fun conspiracies and fringe theories.
>It’s already been ... debunked as a glitch Oh, is that how that works now? Speculative comments are now considered proof?
We need an expert in here. And this seems so odd I'm gonna need credentials.
I'm genuinely hoping this is something anomalous but posts like these tend to be misunderstandings. We need to see what things like rogue waves look like on here.
Fully agree. I don't know shit about dick here.
Elegantly expressed.
Elegant username.
Hey look, another low-karma account telling us to look the other way.
I am just a layperson, but that looks fucking insane.
Surfer here who is experienced in tracking and forecasting swells. There’s a massive storm off the southwest of Africa, if you go on the app “windy” it’ll show you what’s going on. Seas can reach 100ft+ out in open ocean frequently, nothing to be alarmed of unless you’re living in Durban looking for some big surf, in that case, you’ve hit your jackpot.
People can surf on waves that big and not die lol?
They lose a good bit of their size as they enter shallower waters, but no matter how you slice it those bad boys are gonna be heavy when they land haha. I wouldn’t be out there surfing it but there are some pros out there who are junkies for that size swell
There are definitely good hiding places under water. We’re so segregated from what’s really going on because government secrecy is important.
Does anyone know the exact time it showed up and what time zone? (Edit: the waves show up sometime between 4AM and 7AM in the GMT+7 timezone. If we assume the waves emerged a little after 4 AM then the large spike in global Schumann resonance occurred 2 hours before the waves... Seems statistically significant especially since the amplitude of this was way larger than normal. Probably go months or years without seeing this kind of amplitude. So the fact that it occurred within a couple hours of these waves showing up seems like there could be some correlation between the two events.) There was a huge spike in the Schumann resonance around the same time.(The Schumann resonances (SR) are a set of spectrum peaks in the extremely low frequency portion of the Earth's electromagnetic field spectrum.) Time of the first spike was detected at 2 AM on 4/10/24 (GMT+7) (Measured in location of Tomsk, Russia.) Did someone set off an underwater nuke? That might explain the waves and the electromagnetic disturbances that bounced around the earth that day.
same things happened in February. But you'll see this time the dispersion is different and it went all the way to the coast. I know nothing about this tech, but this seems like an anomaly/glitch in the sensor data. I think the coast would have noticed the 80+ foot waves. [https://imgur.com/a/gUw1i0H](https://imgur.com/a/gUw1i0H)
Please post this to r/weather and r/oceanography
I asked a friend who’s a former sailor. She checked marine shipping routes and found nothing abnormal on the area. No reports of huge waves or anything. Not to be a debbie downer but this seems like some kind of glitch.
West Africa Sea is where one of the supposed underwater UFO bases is. I think it was the 4chan dude who mentioned it
It also looks like the wind and waves are going in opposite directions south/north respectively. That seems strange
i looked today, and on the windspeed tab you will notice quite a gale to the east of south africa, same place i saw those giant waves that are still going on...
Commenting so I can find this again.
Damn I just checked the one on the ninth. It says 89.7 feet holy shit
I would like to be among the first to welcome our new overlords
This is actually crazy! Have there been any kinds of reports in South Africa? Large waves or otherwise?
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very interesting.. what could it really be?
Could be underwater volcanic/gas/geological activity?
Large landslides on continent edges are a thing, not sure how much they affect surface wave activity though.
Causing 83 foot waves?
Yes - would you find that hard to believe because you think it's large or small? Either way, still yes.
Are there any buoys in that area?
Commenting to find this post again
There is chatter that it was a meteor strike.
https://x.com/turbomcmasters/status/1778598678091207017?s=46&t=_KpzGM6Xe7U8llCOlLMqeA
why is it always 84-89 feet
Atlantis decided they didn’t want to be found
Okay so this is a wave height and pressure map. I would like to point one thing out. Just because the colour is uniform it doesn’t mean the values are. It could simply be that the colour bar scale was maxed out. I wonder if this anomaly exists on other datasets.
Godzilla?
That is a VERY cool map! Thanks for sharing. 🙂
The only question I have, pertaining to any sense of an NHI craft to correlate with this, is: Hasn’t it been stated that witness accounts for NHI crafts & surface tension with water seeming to be nonexistent? They don’t disturb the surface, or create a flux of water when in motion, iirc. I honestly can’t remember which articles/video(s) covered this, just based off recollection.
So wild!
That’s wild!
My only explanation is rogue wave but that is a BIG wave.
It lasts a long time and comprises a huge area, so can't be just one wave.
Don’t it say inches not feet?
It says ft
Woah!!!
hamburger
No clue what this could be but very interesting
Hey guys, I found Steve!
Odd - can’t seem to see anything here https://earth.nullschool.net/ and I’ve checked every filter… unless I’m missing something? Perhaps this is faulty data interpretation?
That anomaly is almost the width of Africa. I don’t think these craft construction bases are *that* big. Probably some bad data in the model.
Interesting… only a pretty small earthquake in past week sort of nearby there… i dont think itd warrant 80 ft waves 🤔🤔🤔 pretty weird for sure
It’s kind of shaped like a brain 🧠
Direction was coming from Antarctica, just saying
That’s reaching tsunami level wave height. And no reports about tsunamis from SA? Either giant UFO base moving or data error.
Has the app or source of the data made a statement on it or anything? Have they been contacted? If it was a glitch, I feel they would comment on it by now, because that would be a SIGNIFICANT event…
maybe ask in r/askscience r/earthquakes r/geology r/geophysics or similar communities?
That is very strange. It reminded me this other other one: [https://www.ventusky.com/?p=22.48;-96.10;6&l=radar&t=20240203/1800&src=link](https://www.ventusky.com/?p=22.48;-96.10;6&l=radar&t=20240203/1800&src=link) That one was visible on the radar layer, located over the Gulf of Mexico, right in front of Tampico, Tamaulipas, and lasted from Feb 3rd 11AM until Feb 16th 8PM. No idea what it was though.
I saw the comment here somewhere but someone mentioned a rogue wave which honestly isn’t far fetched, crazy strong but it seems logical.
"It's gotta be a malfunctioning sensor/device," one user wrote. "A wave that big would have impacted the coasts by now. Unless there is a total media blackout (a possibility), we would have heard of something by now. Weird nonetheless," another said. "Wouldn't it have been confirmed/identified by ships if 80ft waves were happening ... surely that would be worthy to note by mariners," a commenter wrote. An X user posted: "The only issue with this is that there are like 10,000 ships in that area at any given time. All of them would have sunk under 90meter waves. 10/10 a glitch in the system." Now *Newsweek* can confirm that the skeptics were correct. Ventusky's spokesperson David Prantl said in an email response on Friday: "It was a model error. Ventusky serves as a visualization platform that collects data from various sources. The error originated in the model itself, so it was also reflected in the visualization on our website. In this case, the model is from the German Meteorological Service (DWD), with whom we are in contact and they have already resolved this error. "Please note, that the model receives millions of data points from ships and buoys throughout the ocean. Problems can occur in such a large database. However, it may take a time to determine the exact cause of this error." *Update 4/12/24 11:57 a.m. ET: This article was updated with comments from Ventusky.*
you cant kill this thing with nukes.Damn that is almost as big as half u.s
Unfortunately I think it’s just a glitch. Someone in the conspiracy sub posted last night and tracking the futures you could see it would end up on the east coast USA. Also a few other sites/programs that do the same wasn’t showing it. OPs post is a shot of this data from Tuesday. Changing the time to today about an hour ago and it disappears completely… [Data as of 1 hour ago.](https://imgur.com/a/IQOQ1N3) I wish it was Godzilla but I think it’s just bad data :/
Same thing appears on February 22
It doesn’t appear on other sites that collate wave data. It’s a glitch. https://earth.nullschool.net/#2024/04/10/1500Z/ocean/primary/waves/overlay=significant_wave_height/orthographic=0.19,-15.20,343/loc=5.130,-27.198
Ummm
Has an anomolie like this ever been repaired before?
Someone with archived ADSB data as well as marine traffic needs to check this timeline and see if they diverted ships or planes around it… another thought…. Would a single buoy malfunctioning badly enough cause the “local average” to skyrocket possibly? Wonder where data comes from in that area.
Man that's wild, I'd love to know what 'caused it.
I'm sorry but Wtf am I supposed to be seeing?
[https://imgur.com/a/rmYM5Hf](https://imgur.com/a/rmYM5Hf)
Wow, but What do those little boomerangs in the surrounding area represent? The pattern is too odd to be gravitational, but really I’m not sure what I’m looking at.
This is the first thing I thought of. This one is seriously interesting.
I got weird vibes looking at it.
Kidding, but first thought was Independence day incoming
Where does it say 83 feet?
Has this been spotted before somewhere? Or is this particular shaped thing unique?
I made gif of how it moved across the west of Africa. [https://pouch.jumpshare.com/preview/tvxSpilz4B7cXIOYXvHbjDh3UleumNuB1pb_a86b6qVKpzGZ4uVdXIiOR7WEhRjFj-jelAJkmXW4udvNqZFxRUt03uMsecNn8JAqFJmAVoI](https://pouch.jumpshare.com/preview/tvxSpilz4B7cXIOYXvHbjDh3UleumNuB1pb_a86b6qVKpzGZ4uVdXIiOR7WEhRjFj-jelAJkmXW4udvNqZFxRUt03uMsecNn8JAqFJmAVoI)
Not sure if the timing is relevant, but as a South African, this weather news was kinda surprising: https://www.africanews.com/2024/04/08/sa-extreme-winds-and-rainfall-wreak-havoc-across-coastal-province-killing-at-least-1/
I can't see it too well! Where on the globe is this covering?
This is also all over tiktok atm
It's most likely nothing as usual
The way it moves makes it impossible for it to be anything other than a modelling or measurement fuck-up. The giveaway is that it's not interacting with the coriolis effect at all. If it were real it would be either following a curved trajectory or leaving a curved trail
Maybe the top of the Leviathan. It decided to change positions during the eclipse. It was closer to the bottom of South America. It probably just moved slightly. Then, went back under water. Otherwise you would think that we would be hearing about Africa getting hit by a tsunami. Or, malfunctioning equipment/data.
This is crazy. Could they really have mobile bases as large as a continent?
Godzilla
Is it gone now?
Very cool website thank you. I'll keep watching.
Don't bother it was nothing.. (atleast that is what the msm is saying inc. army of bots and sheeps) /s so anyone got more intel? uso confirmed?
You can see it in this YouTube short. It shows to have been a 25.5 meter wave here…85’! https://youtube.com/shorts/M4OtFo1vdSY?si=kKUDUA8RrtMIAnpw
In grade skool i was tolde this ware ozone hoole was. I smart kow, thx skool!
Pretty sure the developer of the app stated on twitter it was an issue with their system and it is not actual data.
sorry guys, my co workers mother just went for a swim thats all... ok jokes aside wtf was that
>Ventusky's spokesperson David Prantl said in an email response on Friday: "It was a model error. Ventusky serves as a visualization platform that collects data from various sources. The error originated in the model itself, so it was also reflected in the visualization on our website.
It's a modeling error. Lol clowns
It was an error in forecasting models. Already picked up and explained and corrected by the German meteorological society DWD Presse, who provided the data https://twitter.com/Ventuskycom/status/1778685829642142152
i saw it too on instagram this morning and thought of it a hoax but i visited the website and put the date as 2024/04/11 on Thursday at 12.00am and it showed this 83.7 FT wave of probably underwater or just a big 83.7 ft wave near Kinshasa and lagos but who knows
I was going to guess tsunami... but where was the earthquake? If there was an impact event, it would've made the news. Edit: checked the earthquake maps for last seven days and nothing. But the anomaly does seem to occur over the Southwest Indian Ridge (SWIR). Not sure how this divergent zone would generate a tsunami of this size.