Tristan Gooley has given some good clues and information on how light patterns reflected on water can allow one to tell how calm or how rough a body of water is. This article is a good starting point for navigators who may be traversing different bodies of water. These light patterns or “glitter paths” can easily allow for anyone to tell just by looking how rough or calm a body of water will be by looking at the width of the glitter path. The wider the glitter path the rougher the water and on the opposite end of that, the thinner the glitter path the calmer the water will be.

Key Takeaways:

• When you see the sun lowering in the sky and then you see this beautiful pattern in the water of the sunlight bouncing off the water. That pattern is called a glitter path
• The width of the glitter path is telling us how rough the water is
• Where its narrow the waters calm and where it gets wider the waters a bit rougher

“When you see the sun lowering in the sky and then you see this beautiful pattern in the water of the sunlight bouncing off the water. That pattern is called a glitter path.”

Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/water-reflections-hidden-choppy-waves-calm-glitter-patterns-tristan-gooley-2017-5?r=UK&IR=T