Storm surge at Walton

This week we visited Walton on the Naze where we were going to measure the beach. However, very strong south easterly winds meant that the there was no beach to get on to! Even though it was a falling tide.
Through the 4 years of measuring the beach at Walton I have only ever seen it this stormy on a couple of occasions. See the photos below (taken on my phone so apologies for the lack of quality!) On our return we looked at the weather station on the end of Walton Pier - gusts had been getting up to 44mph during the time we were down there!

      

you can really see the waves with the wind here - you can see how LSD works!

And this was the part of the beach we should have been standing on by now!

 

 It's quite rare to see the sea all the way to the base of the cliff.

 


Well done to all the students who braved the weather :)