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posted by martyb on Friday June 09 2017, @03:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the coastal-areas-beware dept.

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration offers the following advisory

Select a region below to see when you may experience higher than normal tides from June-August 2017. Depending on non-tidal conditions (wind, storms, etc.) regions may experience impacts before or after the dates mentioned here.

NOTE: Higher than normal high tides alone do not necessarily cause coastal flooding. However, higher-than-normal high tides are becoming increasingly impactful due to continued sea level rise. High tide flooding that causes a nuisance along the coast (such as flooded streets, washed out beaches) is more likely to occur during these periods depending on your location along the coast. More severe flooding may result if adverse weather--heavy rains, strong wind, or big waves--conditions are present.

Questions answered for different regions:

When will the tides be higher than normal?
Where might I expect high tide flooding?
Why will they be higher than normal?
What kind of impact might I expect along the coast?


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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday June 09 2017, @09:15PM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday June 09 2017, @09:15PM (#523265) Homepage

    Surfers give a pretty damn good shit about the tides, especially because there are some spots here (Garbage beach, so-named because seaweed likes to deposit itself there and rot, stinking like garbage) that can leave you very dangerously stranded when the tide goes up. That's a big deal because it's at the bottom of a cliff and accessible only by a large staircase, and if you get flooded out you're going to get very painfully (perhaps lethally) banged up against the rock trying to escape.

    As far as the surf quality with regard to tide height, though, that depends entirely on the specific beach itself.