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Flooding possible. Be prepared.
High spring tides are expected to affect the foreshore between Fairlight and Dungeness. Tides will be at their highest between 11:15am and 1:15pm tomorrow, Friday 18/10/2024, however conditions may apply two to four hours either side of the high tide. We expect flooding to affect coastal areas, particularly low lying land around, Winchelsea Beach, Rye Harbour and Camber.
We are closely monitoring the situation. The peak tide level is currently forecast to be 4.58 metres Ordnance Datum at Rye Harbour at 12:15 BST on Friday.
Please be careful along beaches, promenades, coastal footpaths and roads particularly around Rye harbour and Camber.
This Alert will remain in force until Saturday afternoon as similar high tides are forecast around Saturday lunchtime, 19/10/2024. This message will be updated on Friday evening, 18/10/2024, or as the situation changes.
Information supplied by the Environment Agency
This information last updated 5:16pm, Thursday 17th October 2024.
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Coast and tidal areas from Fairlight to Dungeness including Dungeness, Lydd, Camber, Winchelsea Beach, Pett Level and the Tidal Rother to Rye, Rye Harbour and East Guldeford
Region: Kent, South London and East Sussex
Country: England
Counties covered: East Sussex, Kent
Watercourses covered: English Channel, Rother
The area bounded in blue on the map shows the area covered by flood alerts and warnings for Coast from Fairlight to Dungeness including the Tidal Rother.
Note: the area shown on the map is the area covered by flood alerts and warnings. It is not a live map of current flooding. The area covered broadly equates to the area where the risk of flooding in any year is greater than 1% (the "hundred year" flood risk).
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