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Flooding expected. Take action now.
High tides, strong winds and large waves are expected to cause flooding on Tuesday morning.
Flooding is expected over the morning high tides on Tuesday 9th December.
Spray and wave overtopping of quaysides, harbours and low lying areas is expected to flood properties. Areas at risk include Kingsand, Cawsand and Plymouth Hoe. High tide at Plymouth on Tuesday morning is at 08:36, times of high water will vary along the coast. The forecast total high tide level is 2.81mAOD, this is 0.6m above tide table level. Strong force 8 southerly winds and offshore wave heights of over 4.5m are forecast.
Information supplied by the Environment Agency
This information last updated 3:56pm, Monday 8th December 2025.
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Thu 5 Feb 2026, 12:53pm
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Sat 24 Jan 2026, 11:45am
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Fri 23 Jan 2026, 3:54pm
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Fri 23 Jan 2026, 12:08pm
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Thu 22 Jan 2026, 3:16pm
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Mon 8 Dec 2025, 3:56pm
Plymouth Sound including Cawsand, Kingsand, Millbrook, The Hoe, and the Tidal Lynher, Tamar, Tavy, Plym and Yealm estuaries
Region: Devon and Cornwall
Country: England
Counties covered: Cornwall, Devon, Plymouth
Watercourses covered: South Cornwall Coast
The area bounded in blue on the map shows the area covered by flood alerts and warnings for Plymouth Sound, Wembury Bay and tidal estuaries.
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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