Tornadoes in Spain

[Wansworth]

Tornadoes have wreaked bars and beaches and damaged marinas along the south coast of Spain.Tornadoes seem to becoming more frequent

 

[GHA]

And along the Algarve.

This was the pressure onboard yesterday when one just missed-

Not the first time though.

 

[captmikecoin]

And along the Algarve.

This was the pressure onboard yesterday when one just missed-

Not the first time though.

GHA, what kind of barograph is that? Looks interesting!

Mike

 

[GHA]

GHA, what kind of barograph is that? Looks interesting!

Mike

Home made - raspberry pi running openplotter and a 2 quid fifty pressure/temperature sensor
Then some added code to save everything.

Surprised my ears didn't pop when that one went over, wee bit breezy!

 

[lpdsn]

GHA, what kind of barograph is that? Looks interesting!

Mike

It would be interesting trying that on a Carlingford kettle.

 

[captmikecoin]

Surprised my ears didn't pop when that one went over, wee bit breezy!

Thanks but also boo-hoo. I was hoping for something I could buy. You're cleverer than I am.

It certainly was breezy. A tree in our garden fell down!

Mike

 

[SV Kittiwake]

Thankfully no tornadoes in the yard at Portimao. Can imagine it would be absolute carnage if there were. Not sure what I'd do, there's a massive wooden boat propped up on some splitting little saplings 2 boats down, and I think if that fell over we'd be toast. I was pretty worried about it in the 50mph winds the other day - would it be out of order to ask the yard to prop it up better or move us further away from it?

 

[GrahamM376]

Surprised my ears didn't pop when that one went over, wee bit breezy!

Don't know about ears, I was looking for my bicycle clips.

 

[Yngmar]

No tornado in Albufeira, and glad we're so sheltered in our valley between the cliffs.

So far not much has happened, during a 55 knot gust a neighbouring boat's radar reflector flew off and rained shards down on the pontoon and one boat suffered damage to their Genoa because they left it poorly furled for several days. Strangely enough they were on board the whole time and did nothing about it.

As for boats falling over in stands, we were shaking quite frighteningly in the boatyard, and we were in a proper cradle and it wasn't even blowing hard then. Would definitely bring it up with the yard management. I kept thinking of this boat we saw in Fécamp: