Take a look at the live Minack CAM http://www.minack.com/webcams.htm

Graham
Penzance

On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 at 05:10:23, Graham Easterling
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

Take a look at the live Minack CAM http://www.minack.com/webcams.htm

Graham
Penzance

BTW, can you see the sea from your home - just curious?
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On Nov 29, 5:41*pm, Paul Hyett wrote:
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 at 05:10:23, Graham Easterling
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

Take a look at the live Minack CAMhttp://www.minack.com/webcams.htm

Graham
Penzance

BTW, can you see the sea from your home - just curious?
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

Just. It's not that it's far away (Just key in TR18 4TP to Google
Earth, zoom in & you can see the Stevenson Screen) but I'm only 19m
asl and there are some trees in the way. Close enough to get plenty of
salt spray in a SE gale.

Graham
Penzance

Graham
Penzance

On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 at 11:48:21, Graham Easterling
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

BTW, can you see the sea from your home - just curious?

Just. It's not that it's far away (Just key in TR18 4TP to Google
Earth, zoom in & you can see the Stevenson Screen)

Well, I can see a roughly screen-shaped white blob, anyway.

but I'm only 19m
asl and there are some trees in the way.

You can't really get an impression of altitude from GE, though.

Close enough to get plenty of
salt spray in a SE gale.

You get 70 foot waves crashing half a mile inland?
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

BTW, can you see the sea from your home - just curious?

Just. It's not that it's far away (Just key in TR18 4TP to Google
Earth, zoom in & you can see the Stevenson Screen)

Well, I can see a roughly screen-shaped white blob, anyway.

but I'm only 19m
asl and there are some trees in the way.

You can't really get an impression of altitude from GE, though.

Google Earth does tell you the altitude. According, my front gardens
at 20m, back at 19m.

Close enough to get plenty of
salt spray in a SE gale.

You get 70 foot waves crashing half a mile inland?

Who mentioned 70' waves? You obviously have little experience of a
real gale over the sea. The air's full of salt spray, it seriously
affects visibility and gets carried well inland. The water can stream
off exposed buildings. http://www.turnstone-cottage.co.uk/PzStorm.PDF
is an extreme example where the waves were shooting twice the height
of the 5 storey Queen's Hotel, and properties were flooded by water
coming down the chimneys. Thick spray was carried 6 miles across the
full width of the Penwith peninsula.

Even when it's just choppy, with no real swell, everything gets soaked
with 800 yards or so of the sea front if there's a stron/gale onshore
wind. Here no real swell at all but still very wet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmGHc2pPsyY

Much more exciting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdYoA...eature=related
That white house on the extreme left is 70' asl.

Graham
Penzance

On 30/11/11 08:18, Paul Hyett wrote:
Close enough to get plenty of
salt spray in a SE gale.

You get 70 foot waves crashing half a mile inland?

Many years ago, I read of an occasion when plants at Kew Gardens were
damaged by salt spray. I think that occurred during a SW gale.

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Teach evolution, not creationism: http://evolutionnotcreationism.org.uk/

On 30/11/2011 9:25 AM, Graham Easterling wrote:

BTW, can you see the sea from your home - just curious?

Just. It's not that it's far away (Just key in TR18 4TP to Google
Earth, zoom in& you can see the Stevenson Screen)

Well, I can see a roughly screen-shaped white blob, anyway.

but I'm only 19m
asl and there are some trees in the way.

You can't really get an impression of altitude from GE, though.

Google Earth does tell you the altitude. According, my front gardens
at 20m, back at 19m.

Close enough to get plenty of
salt spray in a SE gale.

You get 70 foot waves crashing half a mile inland?

Who mentioned 70' waves? You obviously have little experience of a
real gale over the sea. The air's full of salt spray, it seriously
affects visibility and gets carried well inland. The water can stream
off exposed buildings. http://www.turnstone-cottage.co.uk/PzStorm.PDF
is an extreme example where the waves were shooting twice the height
of the 5 storey Queen's Hotel, and properties were flooded by water
coming down the chimneys. Thick spray was carried 6 miles across the
full width of the Penwith peninsula.

Even when it's just choppy, with no real swell, everything gets soaked
with 800 yards or so of the sea front if there's a stron/gale onshore
wind. Here no real swell at all but still very wet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmGHc2pPsyY

Much more exciting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdYoA...eature=related
That white house on the extreme left is 70' asl.

Graham
Penzance


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On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 at 01:25:20, Graham Easterling
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

You get 70 foot waves crashing half a mile inland?

Who mentioned 70' waves? You obviously have little experience of a
real gale over the sea.

Alas, that's true. The closest I get is walk on a windy day.
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 at 17:17:29, Paul Hyett
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 at 01:25:20, Graham Easterling
wrote in uk.sci.weather :

You get 70 foot waves crashing half a mile inland?

Who mentioned 70' waves? You obviously have little experience of a
real gale over the sea.

Alas, that's true. The closest I get is walk on a windy day.

Oops, that should have read...

Alas, that's true. The closest I get is Pedn-Olva walk on a windy day.
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