Fay Bainbridge Tide Chart (2024)

FAQs

Who has the most accurate tide chart? ›

Online predictions are more accurate and up-to-date than what is provided in the annual printed tables. NOAA tide predictions are used by both commercial and recreational mariners for safe navigation. NOAA's Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services produce these tide tables on an annual basis.

Observed and predicted times of low water are within 0.12 hours on average.

Because the Earth rotates through two tidal “bulges” every lunar day, coastal areas experience two high and two low tides every 24 hours and 50 minutes.

Tide Alert is the definitive app for tide and lunar phase information, designed to provide outdoor professionals, maritime enthusiasts, and casual beachgoers with the knowledge they need to align their activities with the rhythms of the tides.

It was here at Burntcoat Head that the highest tides ever at 53.6 feet were recorded on the Bay of Fundy. The Guinness Book World Records declared in 1975 that this unique place on the bay has the highest tidal range in the world. The range at high tide swings between 47.5 and 53.6 feet.

Around each first quarter moon and last quarter moon – when the sun and moon are at a right angle to Earth – the range between high and low tides is the least. These are the neap tides.

WHAT IS A LOW TIDE? A low tide is caused when the ocean is at its lowest point of the beach. On the beach, we notice that the sea is far away and leaves a large patch of sand once covered at high tide. Low tides are caused when the earth is at a right angle to the moon.

HIGH TIDES AND LOW TIDES

In the high tide and low tide chart, we can see that the first low tide was at 5:04 am and the next low tide will be at 6:01 pm. The first high tide will be at 1:14 pm and the next high tide at 10:10 pm.

It can explain how tricky is the forecast. Generally speaking, tide prediction in Windy is not very good in narrow inlets, narrow bays, river mouths and straits. But the forecasts are correct on the open sea.

What is the slack tide rule? ›

The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th hour is when most of the water is moving (2/12 + 3/12 + 3/12 = 8/12 = 2/3rds of the tidal change). The two hours surrounding the high/low tide is what is referred to as the 'slack tide', when not much water is moving. (1/12 + 1/12). Weather also impacts the tides.

An incoming tide, or rising tide, is considered one of the best fishing tide times.

Some areas, such as the Gulf of Mexico, have only one high and one low tide each day. This is called a diurnal tide. The U.S. West Coast tends to have mixed semidiurnal tides, whereas a semidiurnal pattern is more typical of the East Coast (Sumich, J.L., 1996; Thurman, H.V., 1994; Ross, D.A., 1995).

During low tide, the water recedes, exposing more of the seabed or river bottom, and beaches may widen due to the receding water. Low tide occurs approximately twice a day and is associated with low tide hours. It recurs approximately every 12 hours and 25 minutes in most coastal locations.

You can look for visual clues like seaweed or wet sand in dry weather to tell if the tide is coming in or out. If the sand above the waterline is wet, you can usually assume that the tide is on its way out. If everything is dry, the tide is probably on its way in.

The most accurate tidal predictions usually exist for places located on the coast because they are less affected by winds and other meteorological events. Areas with shallow water or in a bay are more affected by alternate factors.

The tides with the biggest difference between high and low water are called springs and those with the smallest are called neaps. Spring tides happen just after every full and new moon, when the sun, moon and earth are in line.

Therefore, the sun's tide-generating force is about half that of the moon, and the moon is the dominant force affecting the Earth's tides.

Tide clocks may experience variations to real world tides over the course of a lunar month, but they are generally reliable.