A flood alert for the Isle of Wight coast has been issued by the Environment Agency this evening (Tuesday)
According to the EA, Wednesday lunchtime’s tide is expected to be higher than normal due to unsettled weather with strong South Westerly Force 5 winds.
The weather increases tide table values by 0.38 m. The total forecast tide is 4.77 metres Chart Datum (2.18 mAOD) at Cowes.
For 1 hour either side of high water, very minor impact flooding will affect some seafront roads, esplanades and car parks across the Island.
Water will be high up slipways in Cowes, affecting Medina Road and the Floating Bridge. In East Cowes, sea water forced up through drains may cause very minor impacts to the road at Albany Road.
As a precautionary measure, and if you have it, the Environment Agency recommend that flood protection is installed at Medina Road 1 hour before high tide.
After this tide, the weather becomes more settled, so levels will reduce and no further impacts are expected.
But still we have a hosepipe band !!!!!
Only if you’re daft enough to follow government rules..
What tunes do they play?
This is due to wind and tide. It’s sea water.
If you actually want to water your garden with sea water, knock yourself out, but I don’t expect it will do your geraniums a lot of good.
Sea water, high tides NOT rain
Sea water will come up the drains in East Cowes? I very much doubt it. The drains are all clogged up with rubbish so no water can get through, in or out.
Why have the warnings, being doing this for 100’s of years every year.
Ah hang on, no it has not. It’s only in the last 20 years has it been doing this every winter. Almost like the sea is rising. But that is not true, so says my mate down the pub that knows more than the Phd’s that have been studying the weather for most of their lives. My mate knows the truth because he watched a video on face book.
If you look at the maps from 300 years ago, the solent was a river. You could walk to the mainland from west wight and at low tied you could ford the river on a horse to Portsmouth. Now look at it. Open your eyes. We F’d up the weather. We did it!
You are a moron.
Sorry, but this is utter rubbish.
The last time you could walk across to the mainland was during the last ice age which ended around 12,000 years ago.
If you know different please provide evidence.
Show us a link to a map from 300 years ago when ‘the solent was a river’.
First of all, you’d struggle to find a map 300 year old, Ordnance Survey hadn’t even started up then. And the last time you could walk to the mainland was thousands of years before that.
And yet you criticise other’s for getting information from a ‘mate down the pub’.
The Echo should be deleting this drivel.