Two images from Duckpool.
The first taken last Christmas – the pebble ridge in winter:
This one taken in heavy rain at 1045 this morning – the pebble ridge in summer:
Lands End to St Davids Head including the Bristol Channel
Strong winds are forecast
Inshore waters forecast
24 hour forecast: 1900 Fri 17 Jul 1900 Sat 18 Jul
Wind Westerly or northwesterly becoming cyclonic, 5 to 7, decreasing 4 in north.
Sea state Moderate or rough, but slight in east.
Weather Rain or showers.
Visibility Moderate or good, occasionally poor.
This is this evening’s inshore waters forecast. It was right for the whole day.
The heavy rain has swollen the river and once again altered the shape of the pebble ridge, the same ridge that presented such a peaceful scene last December.
This is the weather that makes this coast exciting and invigorating.
The only problem is that this is July. Why can’t it wait until the Autumn?
Beyond Steeple Point 
It has been proved that the weather is unpredictable in the short term. One more reason for Britain lying directly below a jet stream delivering storms from the Atlantic. (If only Fitzroy knew that 🙂 )
We can only establish some long term (seasonal) trends.
For example, in Greece it is known that “The ‘weather’ always comes from the West” whereas over here (UK) the direction is SW….There is evidence for this on the way that older trees are bent.
But as it seems there is a slight deviation (with strong effects) even in those long term trends lately. The Boscastle incident happened in August (!) over here, while in Greece, the summer seems longer and the seasonal transitions are less gradual (than even i can remember).
Weather moves “in mysterious ways”…i think it will always keep us its students 🙂