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We've got super high spring tides expected in the next few days, look sharp people!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 7 September 2006 09:22 (nineteen years ago)

(well, you people in London don't need be)

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 7 September 2006 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

it's ok, i have a FACTSHEET on my wall here about how 2 surviev flood. also a telephone number for FLOODLINE.
i feel super-safe!

― it's teh_kit! (g-kit), Thursday, 7 September 2006 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

plus i haev 1st floor flat

― it's teh_kit! (g-kit), Thursday, 7 September 2006 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

excellent work Mr Kit!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 7 September 2006 09:27 (nineteen years ago)

we're going to try and watch the first tide coming down the mersey, seen it once before. amazing.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 7 September 2006 09:30 (nineteen years ago)

I'm feeling pretty smart for living on a hill right now. Who knos, tomorrow it might be an ISLAND.

― robster (robster), Thursday, 7 September 2006 09:32 (nineteen years ago)

explain me spring tides in September

― Zora (Zora), Thursday, 7 September 2006 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

dunno. From our intranet:

"The highest coastal tides for 20 years are expected between 9 and 11 September, and between 7 and 10 October. These higher than normal ‘spring’ tides will be occurring in the North East, Anglian, Thames and Southern Regions"

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 7 September 2006 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

Spring ahead, tide back... or something like that. Who knows.

― Angel In Love With Her Own Pedals (kate), Thursday, 7 September 2006 09:39 (nineteen years ago)

will there be green grass, also?

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Thursday, 7 September 2006 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

"Spring tides" just means tides at the peak of the tidal range.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 7 September 2006 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

9. Why are they called spring and neap tides?
Neap means low - so that is an easy one. Spring tides can be confusing because they have nothing to do with the season. It is not exactly known where the word 'spring' comes from in this context but there are two possible origins. One possible source is a Scandinavian word meaning to 'leap up'. Another possibility is that it is related to the natural feature of a spring - which is a place where water wells up from the earth.

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Thursday, 7 September 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

Spring tides are just the name for tidal extremes when the Sun and Moon line up to enhance the tidal effect. The name isn't a reference to the season AFAIK.

xpost - what FP said.

― Black Light Poster Child (NickB), Thursday, 7 September 2006 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

Sweet, I wonder if they'll operate the Hull flood barrier?

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Thursday, 7 September 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

My bit was from the very good... http://www.pol.ac.uk/home/insight/tidefaq.html

All you need to know about tides! And More!

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Thursday, 7 September 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

kate is correct, its' the verb not the seasonal spring term

billions of xp you're all correct!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 7 September 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

best bit of advice on the wallchart is "FARMERS - CHECK LIVESTOCK"

― it's teh_kit! (g-kit), Thursday, 7 September 2006 09:45 (nineteen years ago)

"APPLY SNORKELS TO SHEEP"

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Thursday, 7 September 2006 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

I saw this Norfolk last year (not farmers checking their livestock - although they did do that...spring tides) - lapping over the harbour wall in Wells. It's pretty amazing and scary in that whole power of nature thing.

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Thursday, 7 September 2006 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

haha, i take that back - the FIRST step is: "CHECK WATER LEVELS"

well, no shit.

― it's teh_kit! (g-kit), Thursday, 7 September 2006 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

i've just been told by my man in the know that because of high pressure this weekend the 'surge' element may have a negative effect. not exactly sure what he means, but it sounds poo.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 7 September 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

I think that where air masses are descending i.e. high pressure, it depresses the surface waters.

― Black Light Poster Child (NickB), Thursday, 7 September 2006 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

lolol: RECONSIDER TRAVEL PLANS

"honey, maybe we should take the boat today?"

― it's teh_kit! (g-kit), Thursday, 7 September 2006 10:03 (nineteen years ago)

Yup. When it's low atmospheric pressure, the water can expand upwards and exacerbate the effects of a high tide.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Thursday, 7 September 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

The Severn Bore!!

http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/media/images/severn111.jpg

― C J (C J), Thursday, 7 September 2006 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.severn-bore.co.uk/images/bore%20stonebench%201995.jpg

― C J (C J), Thursday, 7 September 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

Yay! Go see it while you still can.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 7 September 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

Info on watching Mersey and Dee Bores

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 7 September 2006 11:36 (nineteen years ago)

Whereabout on the Severn was that?

I live on the Severn and it's been pathetically shallow lately... so much so that 5 year old kids have been "water-sliding" down the weir as if it were a complete normal pastime...

― JTS (JTS), Thursday, 7 September 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

Time for aged prog bands from the distant past to shake off their dust and return...

http://rateyourmusic.com/album_images/42748.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 7 September 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

"In case of flood, proceed uphill. In case of flash flood, proceed uphill quickly".

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 8 September 2006 04:21 (nineteen years ago)

Does very high tides also equal very low tides? There's a walk me and Mister Monkey were thinking of trying out round the coast, but you could only really do it if the tide was WAY out.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 8 September 2006 05:53 (nineteen years ago)

Whereabout on the Severn was that?

Stonebench, near Elmore. It's about three miles from Gloucester and is one of the good spots froim which to watch the bore. I didn't take the photo - I googled it - and I think it's from 2002 or 2003. I spent my teenage years living in Gloucestershire back in the 80s and we would often go and watch (or ride) to bore. Stonebench was always a favourite vantage point, or we'd go to Over (which was known as going "over Over").

― C J (C J), Friday, 8 September 2006 06:51 (nineteen years ago)

Does very high tides also equal very low tides?

Yes, it should do. Bear in mind though that the tide will come in much, much quicker because it goes through an extended vertical range in the same amount of time as usual, if you see what I mean. And it won't be slack at low tide for very long either. Check the tide times on the BBC (think it's on the weather website) and don't get caught out.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 8 September 2006 07:03 (nineteen years ago)

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