Penzance Massive High Tide - Inches away from Flooding - Cornwall 4K
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
- After seeing that a number of places in Cornwall had been flooded on this morning's high tide I thought I'd go and check out Penzance Harbour. Spring high tides combined with a bit of a storm surge and low pressure made for one of the highest tides I recall seeing.
The only time I remember seeing a higher tide was around 20 years back during a monster storm. That time the water did make it over the wall separating the car park from the harbour and I remember a couple of cars bobbing around.
This time the water did almost make it over the road at the end of Ross Bridge and as always on big high tides the water covered the road at the foot of Abbey Slip. You can usually walk across on the higher footpath, but not this time. Still the swimmers enjoyed it!
For comparison I've put up some photos from 19 years ago which was apparently the highest tide in around 40 years: • Photos from Huge Penza...
You've got some winds coming in the next couple of days, I hope this is the peak of the high tide otherwise they're going to be in trouble.
Was in PZ for my fiftieth birthday mid-February 2014 - the winds and sea state then were phenomenal, sadly quite a lot of damage along the front. Believe a rock was thrown through the roof of the Dolphin just after we left!
This one? Feb 2014... th-cam.com/video/ms8DEng9kcE/w-d-xo.html
@@cornwallguide Yup, got the bus back from St Just in the afternoon (14th?), as we came down Market Jew Street, I glanced down a side street and the waves seemed to be higher than us! We must have been at least 50' above mean sea level! I think there were several days of rough weather, trip down the previous day was very windy and wet, came down the M4/M5 rather than the A303. The Dawlish section of the railway was already out of action and the track at PZ station was flooded. A birthday to remember! 60 next Feb, might have to visit my home town again! 🙂
Any day is good for a swim in Cornwall!
proving the water temperature is just begining to cool after the summer
You reckon somebody drowned yesterday.
I can’t believe people are swimming in this cold weather
Wish I was there having a swim x
Pensans doesn't have much of a problem with tidal flooding - not compared with somewhere like Looe where severe flooding of the town centre is actually expected and planned for whenever a Spring (king) tide coincides with a storm surge caused by high winds in the "wrong" direction?
In all years living in Cornwall never seen it that high
I never saw it get this high...
It’s called a storm swell !
@@hovishill2779 - and what a Huge swell it is! ...'Dear Norris, - is this a record?' kind of swell, - which place around there has an accurate sea level monitoring gauge that has been running for decades? ...by the way, Looe got a proper pasting....
At least no high winds at the time of high water. Excellent shots
Turned off the pumps again…
It's a proxigean spring tide...l.i.u...about every 18 months.
We're doomed , doomed i tells ya.
Standard big Springs , 5.7 ( 5.8 s in September) strong S Westerly’s pushing it up , tide dropping back as week progresses .
Pretty much. Low pressure and strong winds. Have to say I've only seen the sea wash over the car park wall once before though.
Lovely to see folk swimming
Looks like the sort of bay that a massive shark would find itself in while children play on inflatables. Where is the Sherriff? Where is the Chief?! Where are the large chested ladies wearing red bikinis while running up and down the prom in slowmo?
..Holy Moli ...
Cracking video Chris 👌
Thanks Treve. Was fun until I got wet feet!
I'm from Penzance originally and remember as a Sea cadet parking under the Ross Bridge 30 odd Years ago in the pulling Boat so the older Cadets could have a sly cigarette lol those were the days wouldn't manage it on that tide lol😂
Sounds like just the sort of thing Martin Eddy would have got up to....
Pretty much the same along the Antrim coast this last few days. Lots of seaweed ripped up by recent storms. It’s all being thrown over the sea wall at high tide. 😬
Free healthy snack 😂
Its that pesky full moons fault 🤨
It’s just another high tide!
Well it isn't really, is it... It's a big spring tide with strong winds and low pressure pushing it higher. If you think it's normal for the water to nearly top the car park wall or wash over the road then you really don't have a clue.
The children are having fun
Watch out on this Wednesday night... storm + high tide inbound...
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Crazy to swim in that dirty water
Blimey I wonder what was the water level over on the Scilies?
The seas will recover what it's owed.....
Must be crazy swimming in high tide
Aww, you signed off just as it was getting interesting.
Great filming
I have seen it like it before.
Great footage! 👋
High tide tonight combined with an incoming storm doesn’t bode well. Brace!
Thanks. Just put up some photos of what happened 19 years ago with this combination... th-cam.com/video/6fl9BT9MDrA/w-d-xo.html
@@cornwallguidegot penshion credit 3:10
Wouldn't there be raw sewage in that water they are swimming in???
Not really. They cleaned it up years ago. It gets treated and dumped over the other coast now. Or at least that's the theory.
@@cornwallguide Yes, now it floats all the way over to my land in South flori duh. 🙄
Inches away from flooding? 36 inches by my reckoning!
Round here our curbing is no where near 36 inches high!
What’s it going to be like in 10 years ?? !!
sea levels in penzance have risen on average 1.94 mm a year since 1915 so i guess it will be 19.4 mm higher 😁
Yikes!@@ceismulcastle
2033
Better for swimming?
What the average rate since 1915 is irrelevant. Try telling your bank manager that your huge overdraft is irrelevant because your average balance since you opened your account is just as huge.
Current rate of rise is 3.6mm/year. Penzance is safe for the rest of the century at least at that rate.