Strange tidal behaviour in a Pembrokeshire harbour may have been the result of the rare 'meteotsunami' phenomenon.
Married couple Charles and Claire Davies, whose house overlooks Solva harbour, noticed something odd at around 8.50am on Saturday, when there should still have been around an hour until high tide. "The water appeared to be running out of the harbour rather than in," Charles told WalesOnline. "We started to see this strange event where the water was surging in and out and in again. This happened a number of times over the next quarter of an hour."
The retired engineer, 69, added: "There was a gentle north-easterly wind, the trees were hardly moving, it was a lovely sunny day. We expect surges during storm conditions but we've never seen one during benign conditions. We saw water coming in at seven knots, going back out again and causing boats to lean quite dramatically. It was causing an area of swirling water, a back eddy around the little headland.
