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Tempest and Flood..
4 Jan 2014 09:24 pmI know I have a couple of things on the Snowflake list to catch up on - I will probably catch up tomorrow.
But a few people have asked how we are getting on here on our wee rock in the Irish Sea with the constant storms of the past couple of months. We don't often get a mention on the UK weather forecast but UK friends have noticed that those very big arrows hitting North Wales, Northern Ireland, and the West Coast of Scotland are all going right through us, too.
Apart from the wind damage, like Mum's shed on Boxing Day, the high winds and high tide yesterday caused a good deal of flooding.
The winds were very strong - I posted this picture yesterday at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
photo_scavenger, and mentioned that it's a bit hazy because, firstly, there was a lot of salt spray in the air and, secondly, I had to use the zoom - I had intended getting closer to the sea, but the wind was in danger of blowing me off my feet!
I will put some pictures taken over the past couple of days, some mine, some not, under the cut, to illustrate the effect of that sort of wind accompanying a very high tide, or not... ( Read more... )
But a few people have asked how we are getting on here on our wee rock in the Irish Sea with the constant storms of the past couple of months. We don't often get a mention on the UK weather forecast but UK friends have noticed that those very big arrows hitting North Wales, Northern Ireland, and the West Coast of Scotland are all going right through us, too.
Apart from the wind damage, like Mum's shed on Boxing Day, the high winds and high tide yesterday caused a good deal of flooding.
The winds were very strong - I posted this picture yesterday at
photo_scavenger, and mentioned that it's a bit hazy because, firstly, there was a lot of salt spray in the air and, secondly, I had to use the zoom - I had intended getting closer to the sea, but the wind was in danger of blowing me off my feet!I will put some pictures taken over the past couple of days, some mine, some not, under the cut, to illustrate the effect of that sort of wind accompanying a very high tide, or not... ( Read more... )
