WEATHER OR NOT?

Due to the autumn/winter gale today (with three storm surges said to arrive during the coming night at the coast), we got the first snow (and winds with gale force) here as well. (Later than last year, though.)
Webcam photo as of now from the near-by mountains



Chritsmas markets all over central and northern Germany are closed as well as a lot more ...

Heck. Not great here either. I was out this morning with hammer and nails, repairing a fence.

All train travel in Scotland cancelled today, and widespread disruption.

You should try living in the wild northern hinterlands, Walter.

The eastern coast of England is now expecting a major tide surge, and there's been evacuation talk for some coastal towns and villages in Lincolnshire and north Norfolk. They're looking at 9000 homes!

Should all kick off about 5pm GMT.

The 70mph winds are parallel to the coast and pushing major volumes of water down the east coast.
When it reaches the sticking out hump of land that is Norfolk, it's going to be very interesting.
The local pubs on high ground or in and away from the coast are where I'd head to, just in case everyone gets shut in for a few days. Hic.

Keep calm and carry on.

Well, here's as bad as in 1962, when more than 350 people were killed in Hamburg by floods - but thanks to te advances which were made in highening up the dykes, it won't be as bad. They say and hope.

We don't have many tall dykes in the UK.


Erm....

I know ... and wondered about it since I noticed it for the first time in 1963.

No ferries to the islands since noon ...

... and no trains at all in northern (and north-east) Germnay

The fish market in Hamburg, as of 17:45h local time

(We've been there with the McTag's and c.i. two years ago. There was a minor flooding at this place a couple of day after we left.)

They haven't got far to go and catch them!

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Gales have reached 135 km/h on the coast German Bight side and 145 km/h at Kiel lighthouse (Baltic Sea).

What I find so fascinating is how quickly they are able to renovate everything back to "normal." I remember seeing the marker on a building by the Elbe River where the water level was at their first floor windows. When we were there, there was nothing indicating any flood damage.

Also, while on the Rhine and Mosel, and Danube river cruises last month, we saw places where the floods have been pretty bad - even with the lock systems in place. When the rains are so heavy, even the locks can't control all that water.

Here's what's been happening today in the UK....

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25220224

Snippet: -

"Phil Rothwell, Environment Agency: "We expect this to be probably the worst event of its type since the really awful event of 1953"
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson - who chaired two meetings of the government's Cobra emergency committee on Thursday - urged people "to pay close attention to announcements by the Environment Agency".

Other developments include:

64,000 homes in Scotland are now without power due to disruption caused by the storm".....

The training of the famous Hamburg synchronized swimming club is done at the outside tonight

That engraving comes from the Bristol Channel Tsunami, doesn't it?

The Tyne (Newcastle) has burst its banks, and the high tide is due down the east coast at around 10.45pm.
People are sandbagging properties all down that coast, and the following two high tides are also going to cause problems......10am tomorrow and 9pm tomorrow evening.
The last emergency situation like this on the east coast was back in 1953.

The second wave of gale storms arrives just now on the coast - winds are around 185 km/h.
The third wave will come in about five hours to the coast (and to Hamburg about four hours later).

Aaaarrrrgggghhh!!!

Not here, margo - the Christmas market didn't close tonight ...



... and the weather will be fine next week

I am sitting in the tree - upper left ! ... ...

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