Posted on 03/04/2010 12:27:09 PM PST by Squidpup
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Gloucestershire, UK
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Here is something a bit different - a large "five star" tidal bore on the river Severn in Gloucesetershire, UK, caused by a large spring tide and the funneling effect of the Severn Estuary causing a large wave to surge up the river against the flow. There was a carnival atmosphere with hundreds of spectators watching and surfers risking life and limb to ride the bore ! News organisations also covered the event extensively here. This is all down to our Moon of course so I hope it qualifies as space weather !
I wouldn’t call it a bore — it looks like fun!
I would love to see some video of that. Surf’s up!
as a recovering adrenaline junkie, i’ll add my 2 cents and say that that looks dangerous as h%ll!
Cool.
It does look like fun. I’ve had to surf ocean waves in my boat, when I let myself get caught too far out in a sudden storm. It always felt like fun, after I got behind the breakwater — nerve wracking until then.
Bump to when I can look at it on something besides this tiny crackberry...
Found some video here, it gets good at 1:25
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7046489.ece
BBC has some too.
Smart, using the boats to get the wave started...wonder if they got the idea from the Houston Texas Tanker Surfers?
Ping for later
That is a true tidal wave.
Catch a wave and you’re sitting on top of the world.
Not to be confused with an Al Gore enviro bore.
Though not quite as large, several rivers in Nova Scotia have these twice a day. I’ve seen pictures of tidal bores on the Amazon River that are quite impressive.
Now that was music!
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