Negative surge for 09th Dec

[dennyjc]

It might be interesting to watch the tides tonight
This time it should be a safe (unless you're sailing the shallows) negative surge.

One of these days the negative surge will coincide with Low water AND daylight
and it will let me walk from Felixstowe ferry to Bawdsey.

http://apps.hha.co.uk/mis/Sensors/HarwichLevel.aspx

 

[Hydrozoan]

Thanks for the heads-up. It seems that the positive surge this morning is exceeding forecast (http://www.ntslf.org/storm-surges/latest-surge-forecast?port=Felixstowe).

Your aspiration to walk to Bawdsey made me think of Poussin's The Crossing of the Red Sea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crossing_of_the_Red_Sea_(Poussin) - and that you should have a modern Poussin on hand to record the event! But I then found another painting by Ivan Aivazovsky which looks to me a lot more like the banks of the Deben (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aivazovsky_Passage_of_the_Jews_through_the_Red_Sea.jpg)

(BTW, that line of thinking also took me to papers reporting modelling of meteorological conditions which might have parted the Nile waters, and I don't think the bend in the Deben entrance is quite sharp enough for you to hope for direct wind setdown to permit your walk!)

 

[rudolph_hart]

Was there a negative one predicted yesterday? High water at Maldon yesterday pm was lower than predicted, which scuppered my (already postponed) liftout when I turned up. Needed a smart U-turn and a rush back to Heybridge Basin to lock back in before the lock operators went home I assumed High Pressure system was to blame. Next set of springs are uncomfortably close to Christmas - oo-er missus!

 

[dennyjc]

Was there a negative one predicted yesterday?

Yes, that weather system really messed with the predictions
This graph shows what happened at Harwich

 

[sailorman]

[h=1]Harwich Water Level[/h]

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