On Saturday, August 9, 2014 2:45:50 AM UTC+1, jbm wrote:
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

There are no northerlies in the forecast which is the worst direction for a storm surge.
Mind you, southeasterlies are forecast for a few hours on Sunday morning.
High tide is 0933 BST at Lowestoft so they might want to watch out.

Len
Wembury