A Storm Overnight ~ Images
Posted: Sunday, 18 March 2007 |
We woke on Sunday morning to find that in the overnight storm the waves had come over the sea bank and caused some flooding and damage to stone dykes.
Waves splash over the sea bank of the Bay of Brough at 8:58am.
Water on the fields at Corsequoy at 10:28am.
The sea has demolished this stone dyke which was last rebuilt after the storms of January 2005.
The track to Corsequoy and the Bay of Brough at 10:29am.
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Comments
that's a wonderful looking causeway ... the one in the picture that's flooded ... I love causeways into the sea ... they give one a feeling of tremendous power (not ones own, and if you face the right way, you can almost believe you're standing in the sea ...
soaplady from office
Nice but scary illustration of how 'Sanday' and 'sea level' are almost close enough to be synonymous. I think a gust of 102mph was recorded on Sanday - on the hill as it were...and all things being relative!
Flying Cat from a grassy mound
what lovely pics. we had very high winds yesterday(sunday) 115kms per hour the temperatures are falling fast-we've lost 10degres in two days and snow is forecast everywhere except for us
carol from france
Ditto! same thing happening here and within the same timescale, Island life? Build it up, repair it endlessly and watch the angry sea take it all away again, year in year out. Lovely pictures.
Ac from Coll
FC on a grassy mound ( knoll perhaps ), are your politics veering towards the conspiratorial?
Hyper-Borean from A repository
I heard on the radio tonight that the average wind speed was 102 and the man said, "That wasn't gusts! That was the average wind speed!" I couldn't sleep that night because all I could hear were the roof slates clattering away. It sounded like someone was tap dancing on the roof! What a wind that was!! But we didn't get any flooding. Just bruck blown all over the fairm!
Michelle Therese from Mainland Orkney
Quite stark images, thanks for sharing
Arnish Lighthouse from Stornoway
I thought it was average windspeeds of 70-80mph with gusts of 100+, but I get knots and mph muddled so maybe someone could unmuddle this kitty?
Flying Cat from in knots
It seems that the recording instruments on Burgar Hill give wind speeds as 1 minute averages so 102 mph which was their recorded maximum could have been what most of us would call a sustained gust. The Met Office, I believe, work on 10 mnute averages so they would not record that 102 as a mean wind. It is also well to remember that Burgar Hill is some 600 or so feet up and wind speed increases with altitude. Never the less gusts of 78 knots were recorded at sea level and at the airport so winds well in excess of 90mph were widespread. Comments in the press of cat 2 hurricanes are a bit off beam as the speeds for hurricanes are means rather than maxima.
Hyper-Borean from Anemamnesia
Have just stumbled into your website and I have to say your photographs are beautiful. You obviously love being where you are.
Chris from Michigan, USA
change the design of the dyke
Roland Thomas from mainland
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