It speaks volumes about the recent weather that already by the 8th of the month my photos of today's monumental waves are filed as February:storm 2. We spent much of the day wave watching in lovely sun, between a few sharp hail storms. The wind has gusted to 58 knots according to the anemometer in the harbour but the waves didn't breach the bank today, just the foam ran over and the spray was amazing. We are braced for more wind at high tide at midnight tonight so the sirens may go off again then. The local Methodist Church is open all the time in case anyone needs to seek refuge.
Scarily I looked at the week ahead on Wind Guru and the weather on Friday seems awful with winds of Force 11 (it was Force 9 today) and waves in excess of 6m. Not a day to be trying to leave the Island. It is exciting, there were large crowds out with us at our safe viewpoint today, but it is also getting scary.
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