Meteotsunamis
On the morning of June 27 2011, a mysterious wave rumbled up the River Yealm in Devon. It looked just like one of the tidal bores we explored last month, but the Yealm doesn’t get bores. Headlines of ‘Tsunami’ echoed through the media, despite geologists finding no signs of an earthquake that would have triggered it. After hearing reports of people’s hair standing on end in St Michaels Mount, Cornwall (whose causeway flooded during the event], the experts started to investigate meteorological origins. Sure enough, a storm brewing in the Bay of Biscay the previous night had travelled into the English Channel around the same time
