Reprinted with Permission from Dr. Charles Flagg
Charles Flagg / School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University
This is a quick note on the status of the breach after the series of nor’easters we have had over the past month and a half. In the past the nor’easters often opened up the breach and the channel to the Bay but that doesn’t seem to have happened of late.
Figure 1 shows the photo mosaic from the end of February before the nor’easter onslaught.
At that time the breach area was characterized by numerous shoals in the offshore area, many of which were dry during low tide. The offshore shoals to the west marked out a prominent and deep feature called a marginal bypass channel. The shoals in the middle of the breach were broad but did not dry out at low tide while many of those in the flood delta area, did.