Exciting weather for the UK!

[drowningbitbybit]

While looking at all the charts for this weekend's incoming swell, this popped up on Metcheck


"During this afternoon, the air will reside across Western France and as it's heated up, so storms will break out. The interesting factor comes as a convergence zone develops and pushes North. As this happens, so lower level circulation will start and a small area of low pressure will form.

There is potential for water spouts, funnel clouds and perhaps isolated tornadoes across Southern England tonight on the leading edge of the storms.

All in all, a very active 24 hours of weather coming up for Southern, Central and Eastern areas with a substantial risk of heavy rainfall, local flooding and strong gusty winds. With the small, but potent risk of super cells developing within the convergence zone, this will be where our attention is focussed."


Ooh, exciting

[Phil]

it just keeps geting better

[drowningbitbybit]

FINALLY! 2006 has got its @rse in gear and is showing us some swell!!

[surfhobbit]

Here comes Florence!
http://magicseaweed.com/Wave-Buoy/62029/

Check out the 13:00 + readings!

[JQ]

so when exactly is that monstrous swell gonna hit?

[southwestsurfer]

so when exactly is that monstrous swell gonna hit?

Remember the UK eats your swell JQ .... joshin

[JQ]

yeah yeah i know... don't remind me... but the effects of florence should be felt, although minimally, in belgium... and that'll be good enough to learn on...

[southwestsurfer]

[Luke]

oh...jq...i do feel for you....I thought brighton had it bad,

[JQ]

so it looks like florence is gonna be hittin on sunday/monday... lucky you!

[surfhobbit]

Hit my local break this morning!

Check out the pics at the bottom of the page:
http://www.porthcawlsurf.co.uk/html/todays_surf.html

And no, I don't have anything to do with shop!

5 hours and counting until I finish work...

[libby]

what a surf hobbit! I have competition! I bet you can sing too

[surfhobbit]

haha! Yeah, I am bit of a short arse for a bloke being only 5'8" !! Good for the keeping a low centre of gravity though....

As for singing, depends on how much ale n pipeweed I've had

Hoorah! I've just been upped to a grom - shame I'm an old b*st&rd though!!!

[FishKid Wales]

It absolultley peed it down about 3oclock this morning, so hard it woke me up!
When I went to my car I realised that i'd left the door open after puttin the boards in last night

[CheeZee]

Hey all

yep dbbb looks like we've got summat on its way! ... hopefully not in a floody floody way though ! .. are we still due some weird tidal bizniz as well ?! .. aside from the normal kinda big push spring tidey'z we get occasionally .. i meant to ask phil more about it the other night, but some of the old dudes i bump into in my wierd and wonderful wanders have told me about this whole aligning moony , sunny , earthy convergence is gonna bring some freaky tide that only happens like once a hundred years or summat ????!..

anyone that has any info on this (rambling or otherwise!) .. " post it up " cause it sounded interesting even if it was just green twighlight twaddle

[JQ]

dunno anything bout that... but I do know that that there is another tropical storm behind florence... he's called gordon... flash gordon AAAaaaa saviour of the universe... Apart from that, been looking into doing some post grad course in journalism or broadcasting, and found some really good lookin courses in, wait for it, Falmouth!!!!

[GowerCharger]

well, if you want to study somewhere where you can surf i can think of places id rather go than the uk

[drowningbitbybit]

.. are we still due some weird tidal bizniz as well ?! .. aside from the normal kinda big push spring tidey'z we get occasionally .. i meant to ask phil more about it the other night, but some of the old dudes i bump into in my wierd and wonderful wanders have told me about this whole aligning moony , sunny , earthy convergence is gonna bring some freaky tide that only happens like once a hundred years or summat ????!..

That were last saturday - it was the biggest spring tide in 20 odd years. As well as the normal tidal cycle, there's a 4.5 year cycle, and then another even longer cycle, and last saturday the cycles all combined to give the biggest tidal swing in a long time.

But it passed without incident as fortunately it was a flat weekend - if there'd been a storm then it would've got exciting on the coast

But it didnt.... tide came in (a lot)... tide went out (a lot)...

[JQ]

well, if you want to study somewhere where you can surf i can think of places id rather go than the uk

where, Oz land or the US? Oz is just too far away... if I was doing a masters, maybe... (i'm gonna be doing something for two years), and well the US... too expensive

[drowningbitbybit]

Hey surferdude - did you get the weather? Floods in Yorkshire and tornadoes in leeds!