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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: 2) by deadstick on Friday June 09 2017, @10:00PM (1 child)

    by deadstick (5110) on Friday June 09 2017, @10:00PM (#523298)

    Now, I'm not absolutely certain (just 100's of 9's), but the moon is responsible for the tides.

    ...and you get partial credit. The sun is part of the act, too. It generates tides about half as big as the moon does, and the net effect varies through the month.

    When the sun, moon and earth are in a straight line, the sun and moon combine to make extra-large tides -- and the tides are bigger yet when that condition coincides with the moon being at its perigee.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 10 2017, @01:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 10 2017, @01:10PM (#523477)

    “I’ll tell you why [religion is] not a scam, in my opinion,” he told Silverman. “Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can’t explain that. You can’t explain why the tide goes in.”

    Silverman looked stunned. “Tide goes in, tide goes out?” he stuttered. O’Reilly pressed on. “The water, the tide—it comes in and it goes out. It always goes in, then it goes out. … You can’t explain that. You can’t explain it.”

    Check mate, atheist... I mean, climate scaremonger.