"N_Cook" wrote in message news
not public output, returns this


You do seem to be the only person having trouble with this - I can also
reach the site without apparent problems (Chrome/Win10). It does sound like
a browser problem or some particular quirk of your configuration or
connection.

On 23/12/2016 18:07, Colin Youngs wrote:
Op vrijdag 23 december 2016 16:18:12 UTC+1 schreef N_Cook:
On 23/12/2016 11:58, N_Cook wrote:

do the Dutch have a surge predictor system , with public outputs?

https://waterberichtgeving.rws.nl/nl...chuwingen-.htm

Colin Youngs
Brussels


Belated thanks for that, I viewed the site on someone elses pc.
We're on English channel but any surge appearing on the Dover prediction
there, and not for Wick,Sheerness etc, woyuld probably be coming along
the channel, so would give a reasonable idea of timing and degree of
surge for channel ports.
That plus a crude wind-stress channel approaches and channel to surge
app is probably ok for NTSLF outages.
Other people in our local flood warden group can monitor that Ductch
site, in questionable meterorology.

On 23/12/2016 11:58, N_Cook wrote:
eg what should be here for Portsmouth
http://www.ntslf.org/storm-surges/la...ort=Portsmouth
As the bathymetric part of the model processed at the NOC, Southampton
is pretty fixed, then relevant to a weather thread, as the main initial
conditions feed must be the meteorology.
Does anyone know if the NOC or EA has to pay the MetO for a feed of
data, or whether a free Metar/Taf feed?
Then if someone fails to pay the bill or quibbles , then the NTSLF surge
predictor craps out, 2 or 3 times a year.
The National tide-gauge sytem also craps out at times, but only for one
tide cycle or so, not for days on end. With all the xmas nonsense , the
NTSLF is likely to be out for a week or more. At least very low
astronimic tides for this period of the end of December.

The NTSLF Surge Predictor is still broken, 2 weeks on now

On 23/12/2016 11:58, N_Cook wrote:
eg what should be here for Portsmouth
http://www.ntslf.org/storm-surges/la...ort=Portsmouth
As the bathymetric part of the model processed at the NOC, Southampton
is pretty fixed, then relevant to a weather thread, as the main initial
conditions feed must be the meteorology.
Does anyone know if the NOC or EA has to pay the MetO for a feed of
data, or whether a free Metar/Taf feed?
Then if someone fails to pay the bill or quibbles , then the NTSLF surge
predictor craps out, 2 or 3 times a year.
The National tide-gauge sytem also craps out at times, but only for one
tide cycle or so, not for days on end. With all the xmas nonsense , the
NTSLF is likely to be out for a week or more. At least very low
astronimic tides for this period of the end of December.

For anyone searching on continuing NTSLF surge predictor broken /
outage, considering events in the North Sea on friday.
From an NOC source, the storm surge model is run at the Met office for
an Environment Agency Flood Forecaster who has a desk in the Met Office
forecast room.
The public storm surge plots are probably inserted into the NTSLF web
site at the Met Office and that mechanism has broken. Unlike provision
to the EA, that link will not be considered “Operational” so lower
priority for being fixed.
Apparently the Met office are switching to new super-computers and NTSLF
problem may be to do with that.