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West—facing coasts, we are likely to see gusts of wind 60—70 miles an hour. i was just looking earlier, actually, in cardigan bay and north wales, weve got 70 mile an hour gusts of wind at the moment. so, unfortunately, if youre trying to restore power, cos theres still several homes without power, thats just going to exacerbate the issue. you cant go shinning up pylons and things. exactly — and there is a lot of heavy rain around at the moment across england and wales. i was going to ask ...

We potentially got the surge effect with those strengthening winds at 60 or 70 mph. and heavy rain. its also incredibly mild out there and weve got snowmelt from recent snow that weve had. so its a tricky picture to communicate but basically it stays unsettled. and looking ahead to the weather, it stays unsettled through the week, with the heaviest of the rain and the strongest of the winds as we go through the next few days, the emphasis is going to shift toward scotland, northern ireland and n...

Without power, thats just going to exacerbate the issue. you cant go shinning up pylons and things. exactly — and there is a lot of heavy rain around at the moment across england and wales. i was going to ask you about the rain, because the environment agency, within a couple of minutes weve been reading that warning about potential evacuation in didsbury in south manchester, the environment agency say 460 homes are going to be evacuated because there is a risk to life to people living near th...

Amplitude and volume to increase and that will create a bigger surge effect. also a lot of the folks who live around here, yeah, you have money in and around here living on the coast, beautiful homes and all that, there are lots of pockets of rural communities as well and poverty. those people dont have the same access to emergency relief. theyre going to be harder to reach. it will be harder to know whats going on. those are unique challenges here. >> good point. >> king tides, what are they? w...

Homes and barrier islands, but panama city, dustin over toward fort walton, we just dont have that protection. so youve got that gradual slope of that ocean floor slowly rising and continuing. so this is going to inundate several, several areas of that big bend region. if there is an area to get hit, it would be this one. i dont mean that disconcerning, but we have nature land. >> i want to button up something else. here i quickly showed you in terms of the gradations of the shelf. as it gets mo...