Storm Imogen

Storm Imogen has been raging all day. We knew it was coming and the winds and rains started last night, they soon reached the stage where we could no longer hear the TV over the noise of the storm so we retired to bed hoping for the best, having had various flood warnings. We’ve had plenty of storms already this year, but Storm Imogen was looking likely to be the biggest so far.

This morning took a while to dawn but it was just getting light as high tide arrived at around 7:30am so I took a ‘stroll’ over to the beach. I actually had to fight against the 50-60 knot wind to get there and of course got covered in spray. The sea was in fine form, but despite the winds, the eaves and the high tide, it was only just overtopping the pebble ridge. I didn’t have much time to spend on the beach though as I had to be in work early, so off we set along the golf course towards Borth. Waves were overtopping the sea wall and the golf course was once again being strewn with debris. We stopped briefly to get some shots of the overtopping but as is always the case we missed it and with little time to spare we couldn’t keep trying. The streets of Borth were deep in foam and it looked as though it had been snowing.

Storm Imogen

The weather station recorded a maximum gust of 59.8 knots. Once away from the coast it didn’t look or feel so bad and you barely noticed it indoors at work, but the University was issuing updates all day long and eventually decided to cancel the last hour of lectures and evacuated all of the students living in seafront halls and provided them with free food, drink and accommodation up on campus as the seafront was once again getting battered. I headed out for a run and had trouble battling against the winds at time as Storm Imogen made herself felt.

Things had been cleared up pretty well by the time we drove back through Borth on our way home that evening, but getting out of the car was quite an adventure as winds were still gusting to 50 knots. Storm Imogen looks set to continue for much of the night but has eased off now and should continue to do so by the morning. It looks as though we have survived unscathe.

 

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Alan Cole

Alan is a Freelance Website Designer, Sports & Exercise Science Lab Technician and full time Dad & husband with far too many hobbies: Triathlete, Swimming, Cycling, Running, MTBing, Surfing, Windsurfing, SUPing, Gardening, Photography.... The list goes on.

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