OOH What a big tide.

[andy_wilson]

So the range at Portsmouth must have crept over 5 m this weekend eh?

Pause to consider those in the Bristol Chanel.... by 8.00 tonight the water will be over 14 metres higher than it is now (yup, over 45 feet).

5 metres....

 

[Twister_Ken]

My mooring piles had 6 inches of freeboard yesterday at HW. I wonder if they'll sink today?

 

[Guest]

On the BBC this morning they announced that the tides where expected to be 14 mtrs above the normal. I think someone should tell them thats not really right. If it is Goodbye Sheppey, most of the coast between Reculver and Margate and a good bit of Dungeness<s>

 

[Twister_Ken]

I cycle home alongside the Thames from Hammermith to Chiswick. HWS often flood the road at Hammersmith Mall. I rode home today well into the ebb, but there was water laying on the road in places I've never seen it before, and tide marks on some the house walls on the landward side of theroadway. It's lucky there isn't a lot of rainwater coming down the Thames at the moment, or we'd have had pictures of flooding on the TV news.

Don't know whether they raised the Thames barrier or not.

 

[Mirelle]

For those of us on swinging moorings......

this is too late to start worrying about whether the riser chain has enough scope in it or whether she will be pulled under by her own mooring....

 

[DepSol]

10.3m high this evening in St Peter Port where the water came over the wall and into the road.

Dom

I am boating again ;-)

 

[halcyon]

What big tide, last nights tide was less than the one last month !!!!!!!!!!


Brian

 

[oldharry]

Re: Missed it!

Obviously some bored journo got to looking at tide tables and made a story he did not really understand....

Yesterdays high was nowehere near the levels we often experience in winter: even our mudberth walkways stayed dry which they rarely do on big springs.

The joke is that they missed altogether that last sunday, today and tomorrow the HW will be virtually the same height - same risk, same (non) story - but they missed it!

Even with a solid F9 blowing up the channel we would only seen very localised flooding.....

 

[Guest]

The general media haven't a clue (about anything?). No one mentioned the low tide which owing to a high barometer (1021 mb around south of England) was interestingly low in certain places (revealing bits and pieces not often seen).
Everyone (except our gallant news gatherers) knew for several days in advance that high pressure would check the prediction. To be fair I did hear a weatherman on one BBC radio channel try and explain this.

 

[pugwash]

The \"bored journos\" were right

The reports were backed up by plenty of scientific evidence. They made it clear that the current high pressure would dampen the HW effect. What could be fairer than that? In any case, the danger zone was not the South Coast but the East Coast and Thames Estuary. A deep low over the North Sea and a F9 easterly gale would have produced a very different outcome. The journos are right to discuss this stuff. The fact that good old Mother Nature did something to protect us all is just good luck.

 

[oldharry]

Re: The \"bored journos\" were right

But thats just the point Pugwash - most of them did not. I must have seen 4 or 5 different TV reporters confidently predicting that ONE tide on monday would see half the S Coast being swept away by a freak high tide.

No mention of the Anticyclone damping it. No mention of the fact that the tide the night before was only cms lower, and those for the following couple of days, would all be within .1m of the same height, therefore producing the same level of risk.

And even some prat claiming to be from the environmental agency standing on a seawall saying that it would likely be submerged on monday 'if the wind blows' , and pointing to the High Tide patently 10 feet or more below where he stood.

OK so other reporters did their homework and got it nearly right, but an awful lot of rubbish WAS put out by people who presumably dont even really know what the tide IS.

 

[halcyon]

Re: The "bored journos" were right

Our Tuesday tide was bigger, but no were as big as we have had in the last 10 years.

Biggest local tide I have seen was top of Hamble river, working on a couple of warrenty probs on Sealines at Qauy Marine, other side of road to Moody's yard. Blowing a full gale, spent couple of hours playing around with Sealine's, then happened to look out across the river and thought something wrong here. Looked round, water was just touching the underside of the railway bridge, otherside of the river 6 inches of chain link fencing showing, Swanwick bridge about 2 foot clearance. Time to go I thought, collect up gear, stagger up pontoon, pontoon has shrunk, it's 20 foot from dry land. In the end they had to back RK Marine forktruck into the water, and ferry us one at a time ashore. This was 3 hours after high water !!!!.

Called Port Solent that day to see a Westerley, place was closed, tiles from the big office block by the lock were travelling horizontally across the site. Blow a hole in roof about 20 x 15 feet.


Brian