On Saturday, 9 August 2014 02:45:50 UTC+1, jbm wrote:


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.

Deep depression?
What deep depression?

A 996 currently bifurcating to a 1000 mb centre over the North Sea?

Said bifurcate becomes a triple centre with the system contra-rotating about itself for the flow of the model run on he
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/w...ime=1407499200

At t+60 (Noon, Monday the 11th August 2014) it reinvests itself as a 977 but only as an harmonic in the presence of a large tropical Low. (I dare say someone in the UK extremities will be able to point to reliable suitable cloud effect, if he has learned to read omens by now.)

Since you are in the Midlands, look for a suitable orient with frozen high cloud for defining magnitude. (The extremities of olde Ynglande apparently deficient in such things.)