Tidal Surge

[Lucky Duck]

Some quite interesting numbers at the moment on the HHA website http://www.hha.co.uk/navigation.html which was showing a negative surge of about 0.8m and it is now a positive one of 0.6m. Could be interesting at high water.

There is a report that somebody had to be rescued from the roof of thier car on the Mersea Island Causeway, I didn't realise it got that deep!

http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/mersea_island_man_stranded_on_car_roof_1_1137254_

 

[LONG_KEELER]

There is a report that somebody had to be rescured from the roof of thier car on the Mersea Island Causeway, I didn't realise it got that deep!

Probably that bloke with a Lotus.

 

[tillergirl]

Pretty regular I'm afraid. My neighbour trashed his big Merc there one Sunday. Stayed for one too many on the 19th Green, late for taking his wife down to the Coast Inn for lunch, I've a diesel, it doesn't matter, drowned his engine and got very wet and very cold! When his car was towed home, the doors were opened and water poured out. Insurance company6 took some pursuading that it wasn't negligence....... Usually one every set of springs.

 

[tillergirl]

0.74m above prediction at Walton right now - 21.12 and 0.99m at Silvertown. HW 00.07, 5.16m here at Mersea tonight. It was clearly a bigger than expected tide at lunch time judging by the puddles left. I hope the lighter at Heybridge I am tied alongside has some slack in her chains.... Three quarters of a metre on the HW level up there would make it the highest tide in the 30yrs I've been playing on the Blackwater.

 

[MoodySabre]

Follow it on the Thames here.

 

[tillergirl]

I think I understand it! Not the best - the tide I mean. The table is terribly clever.

 

[LONG_KEELER]

Happened to find myself in Felixstowe this afternoon. Decided to do my thrice weekly power walk near the entrance to the Deben.

I managed to get within sixty yards of the Green Mid Knoll buoy without getting my feet wet. The water was still belting out.

Earlier I had been to Ipswich and noticed that the water was only a few feet below the top in New Cut.

The pressure does seem on the high side at present. But who knows.

 

[Lodesman77]

I thought this one was worth keeping... (21st Nov 2008)

 

[Pye_End]

Big tide at Gillingham. Got in the lock an hour before HW, and looked as though it could go on freeflow as river was only 2 inches above the marina level. After a further half an hour of filling of the marina (quite quickly) we had gone up 6 inches, and the river was still 2 inches higher.

Anybody see Brightlingsea as that is always good fun on a big tide. HM told me that he could dinghy up to the office one time.

 

[Leighb]

I thought this one was worth keeping... (21st Nov 2008)

Very fortunate that the surge co-incided with LW, otherwise

 

[pvb]

Anyone remember the 9 Nov 2007 storm surge? This was the lock at Shotley...

 

[Stork_III]

Anyone remember the 9 Nov 2007 storm surge? This was the lock at Shotley...

It has been higher than that, over the top lapping around the lock office.

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Yep,

I remember that..... about 2 hrs of free flow, when its normally about 20 mins at most!

 

[tillergirl]

Yes, I was on a cross channel ferry heading for Calais and we had to heave-to off Blanc Nez because the tide was too high to dock. There were three ferries hove to in a line. Shame I didn't have a camera. The swell entering Calais was quite something.

 

[sailorman]

Fox`s Marina

Yes well remembered. i took the day off ( unpaid ) to see JB over the tide & Fox`s.
the marina staff were adding RSJ`s to extend the height of the piles

 

[WF36]

Storm Surge at RHYC Nov 2007:

 

[Lodesman77]

Here we go again - today's surge currently 0.92m at low tide...

http://www.hha.co.uk/navigation.html

 

[ex-Gladys]

Proudman Oceanographic Labs have the National Tide and Sea Level Foundation info @ www.pol.ac.uk and follow the links to NTSLF. Lowestoft was over a metre up last night