matty40s

Perhaps Santa has put this in place to assist him in the almost impossible task of delivering presents to almost 70 million people in such a small area. seriously though , I hope we do have downgrades, I am moving a boat southwards to London, and realistically have lost monday as a cruising day. Some of the gusts between 5 and 6 tonight were moving the boat into the pilings whilst cruising along-not something I have had happen before.

My HO always has that excuse when I try to come up her chimbly.

that'll be the one which drags the arctic blast down as it leaves and starts winter proper.!!

and sainsbury due to sprouts?

I disagree, when output across the models shows such activity, it can only help plan.I for one am moving a boat from manchester to London starting tommorow( probably 11 x 10 hour days) and any indication of extreme weather helps me plan stops and estimated delivery time. .....and how many waterproof layerd to wear!!!!

couple of quotes on tenerife from another site.... In golf del sur. the loudest and most prolonged thunder and lightening I have ever known. Big storm and Floods, mum and dad there now God help anyone coming out here in the next few days. Looks like armageddon has started.

galatasaray v juventus match abandoned....

Was the football that bad then....

Yesterdays sunset went on and on, and seemed to go through several phases. One piccy didn't do it justice so I did a little film over 20 minutes. http://youtu.be/FJe1Am_npV4

It was shocking how quickly the coverage dropped completely. If you had been relying and following the coverage and lived in that area, it must have been like having your umbilical cut. You could imagine the BBC minibus going round and picking all its roving reporters up as soon as the death was announced......

I think that from some of the later reports yesterday, we were very lucky... as the wind lost its driving force with the low moving east so quickly. As mentioned above, had the low taken a more SE track, we could well have had devastating floods through Sussex/Essex and Kent as the swell was forced coastwards. Some of those record high levels will have to be looked at by the EA for future warnings and action. THe surge seemed to move ahead of the high tide once it gained momentum and brought an extended peak in the Wash area. It was almost an hour ahead of high tide by Yarmouth and even more by Sheerness. Had the surge and high tide co-incided,with the wind retaining its driving force,we could have had another 1/2 metre level.

GO ON, SOMEBODY PRESS THAT BARRIER "OPEN" BUTTON.........

aye, bleedin fishermen......

I don't think he had any choice, he had nowhere to go...

Dungeness would be affected by a surge up the channel from the SW, not from tonights angle.

several of the gauges graphs have been stopped at 15.00 - whether this is on purpose by the EA so that people don't crash the system looking I don'y know. Boston, Wisbech etc.

spray off the east coast...

Unfortunately, several of the EA level gauges on the East coast are showing "sorry, the last measurement was invalid" because the tidal level has carried on well beyond the astronomical max level according to the graphs. The surge is passing the Humber now. This is looking really bad around the Wash in 2 hours time.

http://www.sunderland.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=3382 Roker beach promenade completely underwater now, not high tide yet.

glad I'm not living in one of those brand new houses with a river view....

whereabouts in sheerness are you

looks like the first weather front is about to hit me, just south of Rugby.

I am sure some of that water isn't meant to be there...http://www.wirralcam.org/newbrighton.shtml

http://live.waves4you.de/ucam/index.html looking pretty lively across Denmark as well.....

it was easier in the old days, ..."scuse me mistah, could I have my football back"