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Old August 9th 14, 02:45 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default This weekend's Harvest Moon

There's been a fair amount of talk on the local news about the Harvest
Moon on Sat/Sun this coming weekend. Apparently - it'll be very close to
the earth so will appear very large in the sky (not that we'll be able
to see it!), it's full on Saturday night, and by all accounts it's going
to be a pretty pink colour.

So let's see if I've got this straight. A full moon creating high spring
tides - 21.14 Sunday evening at Great Yarmouth, and a deep depression
crossing the country out into the North Sea on Sunday evening with the
associated high winds and heavy rain. So why hasn't the Environment
Agency started issuing flood warnings for the east coast and river
estuaries? At the moment their forecast for Sunday along the east coast
is "low risk".

jim, Northampton