It's not Quite all Storms...

[curiouswombat]

I took this picture up near Mum's, in the north of the island, yesterday, about 4pm.

It was the first fairly still evening for about a week.



Today we have only 30mph winds, gusting to 50, and the sea has stayed on the right side of the sea walls. Joy of joys, for tomorrow The Isle of Man Met Office has issued a red warning with more flooding predicted around mid afternoon because of another high tide (2.56pm), a significant storm surge and severe gale force winds with gusts of up to 65 miles per hour.

What fun...

Comments

[sulien.livejournal.com]

That is a truly lovely picture! The weather has been fair here, without even much wind lately, so I can't complain at all.

As for that weather forecast, Holy Crap! I complain about the severe storms we get up here on the Washington coast, but I think you folks on the Isle of Man have us beat. We tend to get the severe blows like that only about once or twice a Winter and the really bad ones once every few years, but you guys are just getting hammered on a regular basis. I hope you all weather this next one well and that things simmer down for a good long while afterward.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you. We usually get this sort of weather half a dozen times or so each winter and the flooding only some years when, as now, the tide and storm combine. But this year it has been almost none stop since the end of November and we are getting almost used to it :(