Wheres this global warming that you all talk about?

[FullCircle]

Just been on the phone to my liveaboard mate in the Crouch, and he is looking at barges and fishing boats aground at low water today, with the pontoon barely able to float an inflatable. He reckons the tide is up to 1.5m below prediction! Well, that would put a dent in your tidal height calcs for going across the Ray Sand. Reckon you could walk across it.

So who has got the huge surge in height if all the water is missing from the East Coast?

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Gosh..... that'll be fun in quite a few places today..... the entrance channel to the Backwaters will near as dammit dry at that height..... and the Deben bar will dry right the way across too!

 

[AliM]

Wow, look at the levels yesterday on the East Coast
tide levels

Not sure it has much to do with global warming, though.

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Very interesting.... looks like much of the East coast has gone between 1 and 1.5m below prediction.... thats a big difference!

Harwich went below LAT!!!!!!

 

[ChrisE]

A result of the big high moving over your swamp infested neck of the woods?

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

As opposed to the lows that most experience in the yuppy infested Solent? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Evadne]

The man from Greenpeace said that "Global warming means temperatures can go down as well as up".
Apparently the same applies to rising sea levels.
/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Makes no difference to me..... its much too far to walk to Calais....

 

[Moonshining]

It's all been sucked up to Scotland. Look at the numbers for Wick and Aberdeen.

 

[Pye_End]

together with a deep low going round the top, drawing the water up north.

Amazing effect from it all.

So when you are doing an RYA tidal height calculation, instead of allowing half a meter clearance, you would have needed to have more like 2m spare.

Apart from the reef that would have been needed, must have been an interesting day to go sailing.

 

[colingr]

Pah, look at cambermet for a really low tide

ClickyClicky

 

[FullCircle]

Blimey, have house prices dropped that much already? /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[oldharry]

Thats a rather big hole near my mooring...... do I need a longer riser chain?

 

[bigwow]

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So who has got the huge surge in height if all the water is missing from the East Coast?

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Doesn’t the tide always drop dramatically just before a tsunami?

 

[ChrisE]

You're absolutely right, I think that we can now assume that the East Coast swamplands are about to removed the face of the globe.

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Oh goody.... we can all relocate to Lymington, where the living is free and easy.....

 

[FullCircle]

I have been down to the yard and got them to point my ship toward the impending wave, and have swapped the Tilley for a WW1 Tin Helmet to protect me from the debris.
We will start engine and engage drive when we see the wave hit Southend Pier.

 

[ChrisE]

Erm, we set up a the border crossing some time ago. Anybody crunching carrots, chewing straw or with the foul smelling mud anywhere on their person just doesn't get in.

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

You won't see the wave hit Sarfend pier, as your view will be blocked by the enormous line of tattoed, shaven headed blokes standing waiting for their surfing experience with their lilos purchase in Ibiza in 1993....yelling, "Come on ya bugga.... let me av it will ya....."

Sadly history will report that most of them will go on to puncture their lilo's before getting very far when their gold sovereign ring accidentally gets caught in their 1.5Kg gold necklace and causes their eyebrow piercing to stick straight into the lilo with spectacular consequence, and severe damage caused to most of the Sierra Cosworths parked in Leigh high street.

 

[geoffatstanpit]

What a fantastic site! It will be very useful to me with a drying mooring in Christchurch. We've been a meter above prediction for 1st high this morning at Bournemouth and eyeball confirms. We didn't get a second high at all yesterday but then I wasn't outdoors much to confirm!