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Old July 5th 08, 05:08 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Graham Easterling[_2_] Graham Easterling[_2_] is offline
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Default Springs + Rain + Southerly gales for the South Coast on Saturday= flooding?

On 5 Jul, 16:16, Dawlish wrote:
On Jul 5, 4:00*pm, "Jon O'Rourke" wrote:





"Dawlish" wrote in message


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I'm sure all the review's recommendations will be followed up in due course
and the recent establishment of the 24/7 "Wet Bench" in the Operations
Centre, prior the reports release, will further help. BBC report on this
from Junehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7453522.stmhttp://news.bbc..co.uk/...


As before, keep the feedback/suggestions coming tohttp://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/contact/contact.html


In the mean time you might find the warnings panel here helpfulhttp://www.metbrief.com/obs.html


Jon.


Probably the worst weather of the afternoon so far. Driving rain and a
force 6, gusting force 7/8 Southerly. Nothing severe, either in
rainfall, or in wind speeds, but high tide is still 4 hours away. The
key to the severity will be in the interaction of weather and sea
around high tide.

With luck my water butts will be full by the end of the afternoon.
Water collection going very well and the water collection vessels have
not been blown across the garden (yet). Now all I need is some warm
and dry weather to use the collected water!

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Well, wind's not gale force in the Channel, or on exposed headlands
(say Culdrose - Force 6, or Portland Force 5) and the tide's not that
big, and the swell's not that large, peaked at 15' at Sevenstones (was
15'-18' when we went on that RIB Alan), so can't see why there should
be any problems, with the possible exception of trains getting
splashed at Dawlish.

Graham
Penzance