Tonight's storm surge

[Tashyboy]

Just watching it on tonight's news and it has shown a bloke walking a dog and someone with a wheelchair getting lashed by the waves.
it has confirmed my belief that some people are born as thick as pigs hit.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Yup. Plenty on this mornings news stood taking pictures just asking to be washed away. Muppets.

 

[Deleted member 15717]

Think it was a video released by the Norfolk RNLI. They are a bit daft around here!

 

[ManinBlack]

When I read the header I thought for a moment it had reached as far as Notts!

 

[patricks148]

No doubt some will learn the hard way,the power of the sea.

We had spring tide about 3 years ago. Check out the Golspie video on the net.
Nairn wasn't hit so bad,but still had rocks washed onto the cause that were so large it took a JCB to move them and that is with 20 to 30 foot sea wall.

 

[Sweep]

I am still wondering how you can have a spring high tide in winter

 

[patricks148]

Its nothing to do with spring the season,as I under stand it.

 

[Leftie]

I am still wondering how you can have a spring high tide in winter

And neaps are nothing to do with haggis

 

[Norrin Radd]

turned out to be a tad overhyped as usual.
nothing happened and all is well on the coast again .till the next bit of wind and rain .

 

[patricks148]

turned out to be a tad overhyped as usual.
nothing happened and all is well on the coast again .till the next bit of wind and rain .

with this sort of thing its dammed if they do and dammed if they don't.

 

[Tashyboy]

When I read the header I thought for a moment it had reached as far as Notts!

In a way it kinda had, I bet those numpties that had a death wish were from Mansfield on sea

 

[HomerJSimpson]

There are definitely some idiots around. You see it on most news reports and only a matter of time until one gets swept away. Then imagine the furore

 

[delc]

I am still wondering how you can have a spring high tide in winter

You get a Spring Tide whenever the Sun and the Moon line up on either the same side of the Earth or on opposite sides. The extra gravitational pull from these two bodies then causes higher than normal tides.

 

[Foxholer]

I am still wondering how you can have a spring high tide in winter

It's the tide 'springing forth'! Nothing to do with Spring as a season (though things also 'spring' in Spring!)

And (at last) Del is correct - Spring Tides happen around New and Full moon - when the Sun, Earth and Moon are aligned.

Tides are caused primarily by the gravitational effect of the Moon (one of Isaac Newton's 'discoveries') with a small amount of 'help' from that of the Sun. It happens on both sides of the earth, because the Earth having a greater Mass than the oceans, so actually moves more (closer to the Moon) relative to the oceans. There are lots of other forces/effects involved!