{"id":200,"date":"2014-01-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/01\/03\/blackpool-huge-waves-breach-promenade-3rd-january-2013-pictures\/"},"modified":"2023-08-17T09:54:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T08:54:17","slug":"blackpool-huge-waves-breach-promenade-3rd-january-2013-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/uk-weather\/blackpool-huge-waves-breach-promenade-3rd-january-2013-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackpool - Huge Waves Breach Promenade - 3rd January 2013 - Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday 3rd January the west and south coast of the UK experienced a storm surge due to a deep low pressure weather system, high winds and a naturally high spring tide.<\/p>\n<p>High tide arrived just after mid day on Friday and Blackpool saw huge waves breach the promenade on the Golden mile, and sea wall at North Shore.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after mid day, Paul Smith, a Civil servant from Blackpool, posted this picture of waves crashing onto the promenade...<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCNWT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BBCNWT<\/a> Blackpool prom in the last few minutes <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/oXRIGZxwXk\">pic.twitter.com\/oXRIGZxwXk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Paul Smith (@P4UL5M1TH52) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/P4UL5M1TH52\/status\/419084848859336706?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Another great picture posted by Daniel Martino shows flooded tram lines on the promenade...<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Don&#39;t think anyone will be taking the tram today in Blackpool <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/hqkLq07tVY\">pic.twitter.com\/hqkLq07tVY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Daniel Martino (@DanJMartino) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanJMartino\/status\/419084809806573568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Twitter user Sam, posted another picture giving the crashing waves some perspective...<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/abbott2804\/statuses\/419085498939105280<\/p>\n<p>For regular updates visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Weatherforecastcouk\/383144038452117\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook page<\/a>, click the 'Like' button and then click the 'Follow' button. Updates will then appear in your Facebook news feed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday 3rd January the west and south coast of the UK experienced a storm surge due to a deep low pressure weather system, high winds and a naturally high spring tide. High tide arrived just after mid day on Friday and Blackpool saw huge waves breach the promenade on the Golden mile, and sea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-weather","category-weather"],"acf":[],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1367,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/1367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherforecast.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}