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Arch Stanton Where I swim there is an overflow pipe but we get very little sewage from it. To be honest, you can smell and sewage discharge from about 200 yards away and the last one was about five years ago. Whilst I don't doubt the problems of sewage being released into the sea, it is at specific locations and my one is not one of them.
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I feel your pain, as a fellow resident of Southend the last 12 months have been pretty turgid. The constant south-westerly winds have meant loads of my sailing has been cancelled and I haven't even been able to swim in the sea. I'm hoping things warm up a bit and I can start swimming but things still don't look great. Having said that, I can remember in 1990 when we got just 10.5 inches of rain in the whole year. In fact 1990 - 1994 were very dry and we had severe concerns about drought. Not anymore we don't!
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What's causing the constant SW-lies?
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What I don't understand is why the weather pattern has changed. Normally the wet weather goes west - east across southern England, but for the last 12 months or so it has been going SW - NE. What starts off over the Channel Islands six hours later goes over my home in Southend. Does anyone know what's caused the change?
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18 minutes ago, Jackski4 said:
welcome to the autistic netweather community, I too have Aspergers. Stay safe in this storm mate.
Same here, on the spectrum. Maybe we need a thread for people like us as I'm always fascinated by the weather!
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57 minutes ago, SunSean said:
Raining again...
What an utterly miserable spell of weather this is turning into! Buckets more rain to come throughout the week too!
Yep, standing water on Hadleigh marshes and winter has barely started. I wonder what it'll look like after Storm Ciaran.
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Standing on Southend seafront half an hour ago there was an easterly wind coming off the North Sea. I looked up and saw clouds moving in from the west. Within ten minutes the wind had changed direction and it had got very dark as rain clouds moved in. Now awaiting the rain.
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Horrible thick cloud down here in Essex, i'll be surprised if we see the sun before midday.
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Down here in Essex it's just started to rain. There's been some rain form over SW London, north Kent and Essex which I hadn't expected to see. Plus with the wind it's cold along the seafront.
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They can call them what they like, I just want to see some storms!
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Huge downpour on Canvey Island at the moment. I was hoping to find some geocaches before watching Concord Rangers play, but I'm stuck in the car watching huge rain drops bouncing off the bonnet. First really meaningful rain for a couple of months round here.
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6 hours ago, Dangerous55019 said:
I've just realised that today marks the start of the lingering twilight season for another year here in the British Isles! In that far northern outpost of Scotland called Saxa Vord they now have astronomical twilight (that blue glow in the sky) until the 25th of August!
... And obviously it gets much lighter as the summer goes on for them.But the majority of us will have to wait until next month before we enter the world of the lingering twilight.
What on earth is lingering twilight, can anyone explain please?
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The wind is increasing on Southend seafront and is more constant than Eunice.
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1 hour ago, Wivenswold said:
Please can the gfuqhgfpjhing about The Met Office stop or go off to the correct thread?
They are not idiots, there is no hidden agenda, they are doing their best in what is a challenging situation. Perhaps we should all say what we think the maximum gust will be at our nearest weather station will be and see how good we are at forecasting? Er, Shoeburyness 71mph.
Snap, same as me! I'm going for 80mph with all the boats in the TBYC boatyard scattered over Shoeburyness!
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3 minutes ago, Staffordshire said:
Hi All,
I don’t post so much here anymore because life…
however I have seen the forecast.
I am planning on travelling and getting an Airbnb somewhere to experience this storm, specifically the snow.
where is it looking best to go currently?
preferably somewhere with a train station so I don’t have to drive.
I would try somewhere down on the coast. Brighton, Southend, Portsmouth, any of them will give a decent view and give an opportunity to see a swell.
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If I remember correctly, part of the problem in 1987 was that the Met Office used weather ships to take observations and then send these back to HQ. The storm went between the two ships hence the reason they didn't pick up on it until it was nearly on us. Today they have a network of weather buoys which do a similar function and have a ship which goes round servicing them. This means we are getting far more data than before.
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5 minutes ago, philglossop said:
My football team Saltash United are playing away at Mousehole tomorrow in the Western League. Whilst the village will be sheltered, Mousehole’s ground is at the top of the cliff totally exposed to those Northerly’s. Think I’ll getting a call from their secretary tomorrow morning. Ironically Mousehole are opening their new stand named after the Solomon Brown lifeboat which was lost in storms in December 1981.
It’s going to be hellish getting there let alone playing. I pity the poor folks in the NE- that’s on a par with storms of 87 and 90!
I did Saltash Utd's ground when I was a student in Plymouth, I enjoyed going there for the Western League games. As for tomorrow, I think it would be better if they just called he game off now.
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6 minutes ago, Biggin said:
London about to get battered.
It is getting battered. From my office on the edge of the Olympic Park I have watched it get darker and darker as the cell has approached. An earlier cell a couple of hours ago left quite a mark but this is far bigger. Expect some pictures of flooded tube stations!
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39 minutes ago, Paul Sherman said:
Skies are Flat and dead no chance for the foreseeable - its got to change an awful lot for us to get anything.
Just been watching the sky from the seafront at Southchurch and there's still nothing...yet.
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Not hearing anything in Southend yet but there's plenty of time.
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9 hours ago, viking_smb said:
jellyfish are a nuisance mate, you tend to get lions mane, compass, cynaea llamarckii (blue jelly) and barrel jellyfish (which are harmless) off southend,
Compass, Lions mane and blue jelly stings though,
Around us when im in the channel at work (CBYC) I tend to see compass, barrel and moon jellyfish though and I have great pleasure of bombing through with our ribs, in the bay there are no jellys due to fresh water (thank god)
What colour were they mate?
Some are clear but a lot of them are blue and they're the ones that sting. It's like a slow burn - so I'm told - and lasts for about half an hour and best treated with salt water (!) or vinegar (proper stuff that has been brewed). There are thousands of them in Southend at the moment, they came in on the tide last week and have been around ever since. It's stopped me from swimming in the sea which is frustrating as I was sea swimming in January and then again in March in my wetsuit but not in June when it's really warm and beautiful.
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Looking at the models it's a case of go east.
Having said that, lovely weather down here in sunny Southend but we could do with some big waves to chase away those pesky jellyfish that have stopped me swimming for a good ten days now. Jelly fish, first World problems!
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Last Thursday - 19th November - we experienced a massive storm surge around the east coast of England. It was one of the highest tides ever seen in Southend where I live and flooded some lower level marshes and came onto the quay at Leigh-on-Sea. But the thing is, the surge seemed to come out of nowhere. The pressure in the area was 1029 and fortunately it was a very calm day, had it been windy or gale force like it was a few weeks ago it would have caused severe flooding with loss of life. But the question is, how did it happen? I didn't get a text alert about it until 10am on the day and high tide was at 1507 so where did it come from and what caused it?
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Just been reading about this. I was working on a bridge over the River Swale near Leeming and between Friday afternoon and Sunday morning the river rose 15ft in just 36 hours. It dropped just as quickly but it showed the amount of rain we had.
Worryingly Wet & Worryingly Sunless
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SunSean For balance, I refer you to the years 1990 - 1994 when Essex had below average rainfall for five consecutive years. I remember 1990 when we had just 10.5 inches of rain in Southend, by 1994 the whole area was parched and my rugby pitches were painful to play on. All we are getting now is a redistribution of nature but over many years.
I normally swim in the sea off Thorpe Bay but have only swum twice this year due to the cold and the constant south / south-westerly winds. I have never known so much of our sailing to be cancelled. Having said that 1990 - 1994 we sailed almost every week all through the year. Swings and roundabouts as far as the weather is concerned.