Buckinbronco

Looks like the NWS nailed the forecast where the ship experienced rough seas last night according to this Hurricane Specialist at The Weather Channel:

Your weather model shows speeds of up to 90....

 

Where anthem is when the storm hit shows speeds of 30.

 

 

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Not certain if you are agreeing or disagreeing with me. I am not sure of the exact location that the ship encountered unnavigable conditions, and also weather models don't nail down systems with 100% accuracy, they just paint a general picture of what to expect. What I do know is that the models had a consensus for a strong storm system developing off the eastern seaboard capable of hurricane force winds. I cannot imagine that heading in any general direction of said storm system would be in best interest of the passengers or the ship. Sure maybe they thought they could navigate around the storm, but it seems like a pretty big risk given the modeled strength at the time. An altered course or delayed sailing would have been more pragmatic in my opinion, but then they would deal with raging customers. Just my 2 cents.

First of all, prayers go out to everyone on board. Their safety is obviously what is important right now.

However those that say that RC had no clue of the capability of this storm are misinformed. As others have stated, weather models picked up on this storm well in advance. I have attached a graphic from the GFS weather model that came out around 11am on Saturday 2/6. The graphic (valid for Sunday evening 2/7, which would have given more than 24 hours notice) shows guidance that suggest winds up to 80 knots associated with this low pressure system. Unsafe sea conditions were being advertised.

I am not a meteorologist, I just follow the weather as a hobby. This particular weather model is free to access to the general public, I can only assume that RC would have access too? Not saying it was the captain's fault, but it seems somebody at RC made reckless or misinformed decision.