The coastal town anxiously waiting for Storm Eunice - the live cam shows an already stormy sea

By Susie Watkins

18th Feb 2022 | Local News

Eunice is under a powerful part of the jet stream, where winds are close to 200 mph, allowing Eunice to rapidly strengthen. The Met Office
Eunice is under a powerful part of the jet stream, where winds are close to 200 mph, allowing Eunice to rapidly strengthen. The Met Office

As Somerset, including Frome, anxiously awaits the arrival of Storm Eunice, one place which is particularly worried is Clevedon on the North Somerset coast.

The arrive of the red-warning storm, which is expected to bring in winds of over 90mph coincides with the beginning of the season of high Spring tides. The Environment Agency has warned this means to expect very large and powerful waves along the coast. And sea spray may overtop sea defences. The forecast high water is 08:15 am.

So businesses which are used to high waters, and along the sea front, often spend mornings after stormy events, clearing away seaweed, will be, for the first time in their living memories, fitting actual flood gates.

You can watch the waters on the seafront thanks to a live camera put in by the popular town sailing club HERE: showing the sea next to the famed pier

The town will also be remembering a terrible tragedy, during a storm on Friday 26 January 1990. One schoolgirl died and four other pupils were injured, one critically, when a conservatory collapsed at St Brandon's school in the town. An eyewitness at the time said the young girl was hit on the head by a falling boulder during high winds.

Tomorrow morning at around 7.30 am Eustice is forecast to arrive, bringing high winds along all of the Somerset coast and possibly a little less furious gales in land. The Met Office has issued a rare Red Weather Warning - before today the last was issued with Storm Arwen in November 2021, but you'd have to go back to March 2018 for the last red warning for wind before that.

For the rest of Somerset including Frome the warning is still severe, but the winds are expected to be less ferocious.

Met Office Chief Meteorologist Frank Saunders said: "The red warning area indicates a significant danger to life as extremely strong winds provide the potential for damage to structures and flying debris. Although the most exposed coastal areas in the south and west could see gusts in excess of 90mph, winds will remain notably strong further inland, with gusts of between 70-80mph for most within the amber warning area."

     

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