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  • Location: Western Isle of Wight
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, Storm, anything loud and dramatic.
    • Location: Western Isle of Wight
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    http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_72...s=1&bbcws=1

    Just noticed this. Is it a tsunami?

    Russ

    Arr just found this http://www.local6.com/news/15595036/detail.html So its weather related they say? I can't see a storm on the current charts off Spain.

    I have looked at the satellite animation too :rofl:

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    Beverley Lass Experienced

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  • Location: Near Beverley, East Yorks. (2 metres a.s.l.)
  • Weather Preferences: Something good in all four seasons
    • Location: Near Beverley, East Yorks. (2 metres a.s.l.)
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    http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_72...s=1&bbcws=1

    Just noticed this. Is it a tsunami?

    Russ

    Oh wow, that would have been scary !

    I wonder if that's very recent ?

    Maybe storm force winds ?

    Haven't heard of anything like an earthquake to have caused that.

    Btw, I watched that repeated BBC docu' last night on Tsunami's. Amazing facts.

    Cheers,

    BL

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  • Location: Western Isle of Wight
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, Storm, anything loud and dramatic.
    • Location: Western Isle of Wight
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    Oh wow, that would have been scary !

    I wonder if that's very recent ?

    I am slightly worried now as I live 1000yards from the sea :o

    It was put up by the second link I posted, just under an hour ago. So its today I think :rofl:

    Russ

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  • Location: Western Isle of Wight
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, Storm, anything loud and dramatic.
    • Location: Western Isle of Wight
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    Arr it was yesterday http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/article....p;in_page_id=64

    Thats better no tsunami today :o :rofl:

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  • Location: Near Beverley, East Yorks. (2 metres a.s.l.)
  • Weather Preferences: Something good in all four seasons
    • Location: Near Beverley, East Yorks. (2 metres a.s.l.)
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    Arr it was yesterday http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/article....p;in_page_id=64

    Thats better no tsunami today :) :lol:

    Phew, we coastal dwellers can sleep easy in our beds tonight then ;)

    It was some storm wave though !

    BL.

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    Nick F Maestro

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  • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)
    • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)
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    Being on the Atlantic coast, the N and W Spanish coasts are open to the very occasional threat of exceptionally high waves stirred up from Atlantic lows - just like other Atlantic coastal areas where wave heights have had a long fetch to gain height - hence why the Atlantic coasts of Western Europe are popular with serious surfers.

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  • Location: Western Isle of Wight
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, Storm, anything loud and dramatic.
    • Location: Western Isle of Wight
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    I see, thanks Nick.

    When I walk to the end of Freshwater Bay, the beach is very steep and the waves rush dramatically right up, I must admit I get a little scared. I certainly don't go there in bad weather :lol:

    Regards,

    Russ

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  • Location: Stewartstown (51m asl) , N.Ireland. (In Dazzling Dazza Land)
    • Location: Stewartstown (51m asl) , N.Ireland. (In Dazzling Dazza Land)
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    Crikey, that would have been as scarey as hell for those it hit, It looks like the car in the top right hand corner took evasive action just in time to avoid becoming another casualty.

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