News DetailMassive storm surge pounding parts of the UK and northwest Europe
Posted At: November 8, 2007 @ 8:43 PM
Posted By: Reed Timmer
Related Categories: General
A strong, vertically-stacked low pressure system is drifting southward across western Scandinavia, with 50-70 mph northerly winds to the west of the cyclone across the entire North Sea. These persistent northerlies are "piling-up" water along the western and southern boundaries of the North Sea, resulting in a storm surge of historic proportions along the eastern UK and Northwest European Coastlines. Holland will experience the brunt of the storm surge, with the highest values above sea level recorded since 1953. According to Cors, a native of Holland the most recent data is showing a surge of 310 cm above sea level at New Amsterdam. As conditions continue to worsen, a levee breach is unlikely, but not out of the question. Check out the URL below for the recent storm surge data from Holland:
http://www.svsd.nl/index.cfm?page=waterstandgrafieken.denhelder&load=denhelder.H10
Here is a story from CNN focusing on the storm surge in southeast England:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/weather/2007/11/08/connery.uk.flood.warning.itn?iref=videosearch
Thanks to Cors for keeping us continually updated on this dangerous situation.
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Cold weather and flooding doesn't sound good....
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if any still goes to last blog finally final espisode all parts there
Well this is unexpected.. Snow Thunderstorm going on right now here in Winnipeg haha.
omg thats so awsome thunder snow gotta be strong then?cuz i had one wit one snowstorm here in nj and they were talkin about power outages from it and stuff
No real indication of lightning.. I screenshotted the flight planning website though and got a pic of a flash.. lit up the sky but no lightning bolts or anything. Link's in my tag =)
That's crazy Tim! Thanks for sharing the picture. I've only seen thundersnow a few times in my life.
Last year we had a massive thunderstorm with sleet and freezing rain here in Norman. I drove in it on purpose and one of windshield wipers broke off.
exciting weather for Cors! - I hope he get's some footage!
The weather seems to be getting quite active.
I just made a video talking about a low pressure systems in the pacific. Then I read the weather discussion for Seattle today and they mention a 941 mb low!
I don't think i've heard of such things. here is part of the discussion:
MODELS STILL VARY QUITE
A BIT ON THE DEPTH AND TRACK OF THE LOW...WITH THE 18Z GFS THE
STRONGEST SHOWING AN INCREDIBLE 941 MB SUPER LOW OFF CENTRAL BC.
Here is the video i made - http://youtube.com/watch?v=Foq7mVNoNfg
thx joey! btw ive got the livestream up (for a little while):
http://insaneweather.com/videostream/viewer.html
some tornadic cells passing over right now...
ps whoa 941mb?!
Afternoon all. How are thing in Holland at the moment Cors. This storm is making headlines all over the world now. Will be interesting to see how bad it's got. Wish I was there to cover it in person!
the winds werent that strong inland. the storm surge was pretty high in rotterdam it reached 316cm above NAP(amsterdam new level) which is the second highest for that area. it show it here:
http://www.svsd.nl/index.cfm?page=waterstandgrafieken.denhelder&load=denhelder.H10
now were are getting some nice looking cells with hail flying by,,really incredible structure espescially with the rising sun the morning i took a walk through amsterdam to take some pics. but really not much wind inland at all so i think damage will be minimal.
uhh I mean here:
http://www.svsd.nl/index.cfm?page=waterstandgrafieken.hoekvh&load=hoekvanholland.H10
hoekvanholland is next to rotterdam
I live on the South East Coast of England in a place called Dover, i'm keeping a eye on the web cam. The waves down here get really high with strong winds, it's awesome! We've had very strange weather this year with giant hail and big thunderstorms.
here are 2pictures i took:
http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/7838/tilocloud1vn8.jpg
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/2238/tilocloud2ec2.jpg
btw this satellite map is pretty detailed(it has zoom)
http://www.sat24.com
Hey Joey. just watched ur youtube link. Great video!!! ( as always)
Germany is getting hammered now. lot of warnings out.
I'm off to work!! A nice lil snow here!! About an inch or so on my truck!! It's a nice mellow Christmasy snow! Take care everyone!! And thanx again Cors for the updates!!
Just popping in for a peek!! There was about 2" or 3" on the streets here!! Accidents everywhere!! Everyone forgot how to drive in this stuff! It's melting now and I'm sure will be gone by the time I get home tonight!! The main bridge into Superior WI was shut down for a while this morning due to a 5 car pile up!! hehe It's open now!! Anyway, Have a good day folks!!
Hey guys...
Just got in rom school , how is this looking, were not going to get anything from this so im nworried lol
Jaclyn whats it looking like down south, is the storm surge as bad as what was predicted??
btw yeh, someone else from England :P
just found this picture it shows the force of todays storm surge. http://www.geenstijl.nl/archives/images/zandvoortgroot.jpg
wow Cors your on fire lol!! Thanks for the updates and pictures
That photo you just posted was pretty graphic, Cors! aLSO, i LIKED THE ONE YOU HAD (haha - ALL CAPS! it was a mistake, honest!!!) ... Okay, lets start over... I liked this one too, which you posted earlier:
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/2238/tilocloud2ec2.jpg
oh heidi, i just wish i could take a picture as proffesional looking as you can...and i need a better camera(not phone) :P
Cors, would it be safe to assume by that picture of the beach that the bulk of the surge has come and gone?
yup he threat has passed for us but I think the coastline took a beating, so if there would be another storm it might not hold as well and storm season has just started for us.
the highest gust ive seen so far was in Germany on the isle of Pellworm Schleswig-Holstein of 88mph or 141kmph. compared to Kyrill from last januari with 225kmph gusts it isnt that high.
Nice shots Cors! Textbook low-topped convection there.
It looks like on the satellite storms have fired in eastern Germany...any word on if they're supercellular?
As usual there was an over-reaction of what the storm could do. It wasn't bad here at all, the only thing that happened was my mums flower pots got blown over. I'm glad no one got flooded but it was boring. I'm disapointed i was so psyched up for an amazing day :-(
dunno reed, we need volker in here!
Did any one see the hailstorm that hit colombia? COOL!!
yup that looked insane jaclyn.
Hey Joey good video. Sounds a little crazy in Germany. Sounds like we'll get some rain early next week but still no snow for huninting :(
Thanks Cors and everyone who liked the video. Reed said he might post the video on the blog later on.
Glad to hear things are ok over there Cors, my family came to Canada from Holland in the 1800s, and I've always wanted to visit.
Joey are you from the west coast?
If so, thanks for the chinook! :)
Here in SW Alberta we've gained 15C(60F) in less than 3 hours thanks to a nice warm batch from the PNW.
Feels like June!
PB that is really warm for this time of year. its 5C(41F) right now in Southern Ontario
for anybody that cares my new email is ontariostormchaser@hotmail.com if anybody wants to add me to there MSN.
Hey everyone! Matt, if you don't mind, I'll add you on msn, since I like talking to people.
I wonder if Tim Jacobs has been recieving any rain or effects from that storm... hmm...
Aj, If you haven't added me, add me now! email is on my site in Red on the first page if ya want it.
Soo...EC predicted snow today 90% chance and guess what..Nothing has fallen yet. Nice little gloomy sunset we just had though :)
this is old news now, but heres an article containing some pretty insane facts about that greensburg supercell, maybe some have already read this if you are subcribed to other blogs...
http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/10952296.html
Hey folks!! looks like it's gonna be back into the 50's here in the next few days!! Boooo!!! I want snow!!=(
Brady, I'l settle for any old moisture now. Hell, dew in the morning would be nice. lol.
Be back later guys. Life calls ;)
Nice story about the Greensburg Monster, Brandon. Hope everyone reads it.
That was pretty interesting-that was the tornado that happened at night-right?
yea Ef5 happen at night and stuff around 9-9:30 i was watchin storm on live feed till like 3 storm wentr on for like forever
Justin give me the link
I'd be interested to see the difference in the radar they used compared to the normal stuff we all see now. And how did they determine the debris was at 10000 feet?
Maybe someone here could calculate the energy required to produce a 2 mile wide, 10000 foot high debris cloud. I just can't think on that scale.
Not sure if anyone else posted this...but if you follow this link, it takes you to a local news station page for Minneapolis---then there is a link to a website for Bogota, Columbia in the blurb that is written. They had some massive hail storm, and the hail was 3 feet deep in spots---almos tooks like a melting avalanche went through. If you click on the picture on the Bogota site, it will open a slide show. Pretty insane.
http://www.kare11.com/weather/weather_article.aspx?storyid=269262
Wow Bo..That's insane. At first I couldn't believe that it was hail...That's gotta be the worst hail storm of the century if not centuries...That's gotta suck for the firefighters that have to work and clean up that mess. How much death's were there if any?
I think that either Cors or Volker did post that story a few days ago in another thread. (I *think* it was one of them, anyway??) But yeah, that was incredible. I couldn't believe that it was a hailstorm, either! It looked like it was a flash-flood with hail that had floated to the top, at least after it started melting, so I like your "melting avalanche" comparison, Bo!
Yeah, that was amazing...a lot of water, and probably more of it from the melting hail. That must have been a very powerful storm that stalled out. Amazing. It did look like an avalanche. :) I imagine the air was quite a bit colder with all of that frozen/melting hail around.