Hi -
the most extreme tides (highest & lowest) of the season are coming up - great times to go tide-pooling or to watch the bluffs recede. The really high tides in conjunction with a good storm surge can produce something to behold, and a good low tide at sunset on a clear cold winter day, well, that’s reason #3 of why we live here - starting on the Solstice and continuing until the day after Christmas, something to take the out-of-towners to see!
and as always, if you’re out in the tide pools - beware of the very ral danger of sneaker waves - a good safety primer is avaialble here:
http://coastguardnews.com/coast-guard-urges-beach-safety/2006/12/08/
and good comcise explanation of how it all works can be found at NOAA’s “ A BRIEF EXPLANATION OF THE BASIC ASTRONOMICAL FACTORS WHICH PRODUCE TIDES AND TIDAL CURRENTS” at
http://www.co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/restles1.html
Chuck Kozak
* - Just the highest and lowest of each day listed -
12/21/2007 Fri
08:16AM LST 6.9 H
03:22PM LST -1.2 L
12/22/2007 Sat
09:04AM LST 7.1 H
04:11PM LST -1.6 L
12/23/2007 Sun
09:53AM LST 7.2 H
04:59PM LST -1.8 L
12/24/2007 Mon
12:24AM LST 5.0
10:42AM LST 7.1 H
05:46PM LST -1.7 L
12/25/2007 Tue
01:11AM LST 5.1
11:32AM LST 6.9 H
06:32PM LST -1.5 L
12/26/2007 Wed
12:22PM LST 6.5 H
07:18PM LST -1.1 L