Re: Highest Tide of the Year


Graham Easterling wrote:

But the OP ws talking about a phenomenon that is ascribed to the tides
of the south east coast.

Was I? News to me.

I may be wrong but the phenomena of the storm surge due to lower
pressure at the south end of the North Sea causing, or alledged to
cause a storm surge is a phenomenon that applies to an enclosed basin
and aught not to be used elsewhere unqualified.

Whether happened to know what you were talking about at the time is
another matter.

I was simply stating that an onshore wind,
especially where, as in the Severn estuary the topography enhances the
effect, increases the height of the astronomical tide. On a very high
spring this can be bad news.

I suppose that the Severn estuary might well be considered and enclosed
sea. In view of the ranges of the tide in the area one might insist on
its importance too.

Whilst large waves might be induced (again I can't say I agree to that
ideology) by strong winds, they certainly are concurrent. The thing is,
on the open sea they can travel for hundreds of miles (hence the need
to invent that special effect above for those areas where they can not
travel so far.)

One would have thought that an absence of pressure would be more a
cause for wonder than a parking space for effect.

Depends on your area of interest. To a surfer it is useful to know
details of tides, swell predictions, and understand what sort of swell
different weather conditions generate. It is not necessary to
understand in depth every detail of the coriolis effect, though this
might be desperately interesting to someone else.

Bloody hell, now we are on the misunderstanding of chirality called the
Coriolis effect. Where did that come from?
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(The rotation of the globe. Yes, ha ha. Very good.)

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