During the downpour today, I was reminded of one design aspect of offshore structures. They are designed to handle the expected worst case nature can throw at it. This would be defined for example as a 10 year storm, 50 year storm, 100 year storm, i.e. the worst weather the platform will experience in 10/50/100 years. I assume data collection is done by companies such as Metocean, who provide probabilities of weather conditions in given locations.
I wonder what happens if you use out of date information, considering that the world’s weather is changing. Would the ol’ 50 year storm end up happening every year now?
On the same theme, I give you a look at the weather conditions at Puchong today. The mp4 videos are available here and here.
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