Storm surge

[RUDD]

Having lived on the Suffolk coast all my life all I can say is tonight The East Anglian coast received a reprieve from nature.

Whilst there was a big tide and storm surge coming down the North sea, mother nature changed the wind direction.

At lunchtime the sea was high but flat calm due to wind direction.

At around 1300 the wind did swing from a SW to A Westerly, this has pushed the pocket of water off shore.

Tonight's high tide was massive but the wind has remained constant.

The surge appeared as predicted and minor flooding has occurred.

If the wind had swung to a Northery or further round to the East there would of been major flooding in places.

[Ken L]

Nice dodge. The wrong combination of conditions can be brutal.

 

As you will be only too well aware, on the night of Saturday 31 January 1953 and morning of 1 February 1953 the North Sea was experiencing spring tides. A deep Atlantic depression passed to the north of Scotland and moved southeast down the North Sea. The northerly gales on the western side of this depression forced sea water south at the time of high tide, causing a tidal surge down the North Sea which locally exceeded 5.6 metres (18.4 ft) above mean sea level. The winds also generated very large waves in the North Sea that damaged coastal defences. A maximum gust of 126 mph was observed at Costa Hill, Orkney as the storm centre pressure fell to 964 hPa over the northern North Sea.

The combination of high spring tides, storm surge, winds and very large waves resulted in sea defences being overwhelmed in some locations, leading to extensive flooding. In England, 307 people were killed in the counties of Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. Nineteen were killed in Scotland, whilst 1800 people lost their lives in the Netherlands.

[big_cod]

Whitby got flooded again yesterday the tide surge wasn't as bad as just few years but never the less property's were under water yesterday .The council put large sandbags to try and stop the sea water from flooding the town it failed in again.

 

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Edited January 14, 2017 by big_cod