ImagesBrighton pictures of the week 29-11-2004

IMAGESBRIGHTON photography by david gray
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Global warming is predicted to change our weather and make it more volatile and violent. This year hasn't yet seen a hurricane in Britain (though Florida has had more than its usual share) and there are bound to be major gales around the coast before the winter is over. This week's pictures remember a particularly stormy day at Brighton in October 1999. Huge waves and a high tide flooded much of the seafront and battered the two piers. The Palace Pier remained open and provided an excellent view of the raging sea. The West Pier, astonishingly, remained intact apart from losing a lot of its wooden decking, which ended up on the beach. It was to be more than three years later that further storms and a fire finally did for the poor old West Pier. This week, plans were announced for a 40-storey skyscraper right by the sea at Brighton Marina. If and when the hurricanes do hit the south coast, that might not be the most comfortable place to be.

Looking at the waves crash onto the Doughnut groyne (image 1495-13)

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