Biggest tide in 18 years

[The Bigfella]

.. so says the radio, with gale and storm warnings in place too. The coal ships off Newcastle are heading out to deeper waters. I've been contributing to my cardio's Posche fund today so haven't been down to the river to check yet. Tomorrow is boat day.

[seanz]

Could be worse.........

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4572396a12.html


A 2.2 metre high tidal wave inundated parts of Jakarta overnight as the city government and citizens tried to hold the water back with emergency embankments, a government official said.

Hope everything's OK over your way.

[ron ll]

Seattle will have about a 16.4 foot change this afternoon (predicted). What is it in your area? What's happening in Alaska and Nova Scotia? Anyone have big tide stories, like boats hanging from pilings or something? :D

http://www.ronlloyd.com/oddstuff/anchored.JPG

[goodbasil]

Yesterday, Vancouver's tide went from 0.0' to over 15'. Noth'in freaky happened though.

[TimH]

the earth is going to get knocked off balance.....run for your lives!!

[Pete Dorr]

If we get about a +15' tide I can launch my boat from my front lawn.

[rufustr]

Just a check up I hope Ian.
Same weather system we just had.
Minor flooding on the Sunshine coast and Brisbane.
Picture in the paper of an Aston Martin half submerged in Ann Street in the city.
You may have to scroll through this link.

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/gallery/0,23816,5032084-952,00.html

[SaltyD from BC]

At 01:26 dark and early thismorning we had a 17.1 foot tide.

At 08:50 thismorning there was a 0.0 foot tide.

We get slight minus tides once in a while and a foot or more higher tides than today here once in a while too. All things considered really big tides today here today as well. I was out in my skiff earlier and the kelp was getting a real workout where it was running.. :)

[skuthorp]

I'd better move the cleat on my front steps!

[The Bigfella]

Pity about the Aston Martin - caught out kerb crawling perhaps?

We don't get massive tides here - the issue is the impact of a bigger than normal tide with the storms. The pictures on the TV news last night were of our beaches being eroded, etc. I'm heading down to the boats in a few minutes. This sort of weather is always a worry.

[SaltyD from BC]

We don't get massive tides here - the issue is the impact of a bigger than normal tide with the storms. The pictures on the TV news last night were of our beaches being eroded, etc. I'm heading down to the boats in a few minutes. This sort of weather is always a worry.

Its all relative Bigfella, if we had a storm on top of today's tides there'd be worry too for sure.. Good luck down there..

[Nanoose]

.. my cardio's Posche fund...

Ah, forgive my ignorance, but is this another Ozyism?

Man, between you and Dingo, we have NO idea what the heck you guys mean! :eek: ;)

[The Bigfella]

Ah, forgive my ignorance, but is this another Ozyism?

Man, between you and Dingo, we have NO idea what the heck you guys mean! :eek: ;)

Ah - just a bit of shorthand - sorta like saying Jap instead of Japanese.

In longhand it meant that I had an expensive visit to my cardiologist yesterday, with the promise of an even more expensive visit next week. If it keeps up, he'll be able to buy a Porsche in no time.

.. and back to the tides - I've just spent a couple of hours down the river, and changed out a flat battery in Grantala's tender. The river is brown and full of floating junk that's been washed down the creeks - mainly organic, but with the odd bit of plastic that finds its way to sea this way. The normal drive down the ramp and on to the car ferry was a flat drive straight on - and this morning's tide was already well on its way out.

The State Emergency Service still had about 300 calls for assistance and had to sandbag some shops and houses but, luckily, the really big dump of rain last night was 10-30 kilometres offshore. There's still a couple of rivers on flood watch.

[BrianW]

Been caught once or twice...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/BrianW/stuff/TIDE1.jpg

There's always a lot more stuff in the water during big tide swings.

[The Bigfella]

Did a bit of waiting there did you Brian?

Our car ferry guys had the same problem last year. They pulled up at high tide in the early hours of the morning and went to sleep. Woke up high and dry and had to wait for the next high to get off again.

[Wild Wassa]

It is a bit full on at the moment with this East Coast low. The wind patterns look like they did when we had that cyclone off the coast a few years ago, it looks like a cyclone now.

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/national_radar_sat.loop.shtml

At the southern edge of the low at Woolgonga inlet, they have had over 100mls since yesterday and the rain is moving inland now, so bring it on. A bit of real rain here is way over due.

Manly Hydrolics has the real time wave records, pulses, frequencies and swells.

http://www.mhl.nsw.gov.au/www/wave_map.htmlx

Off Sydney at the moment the sea on swell is 7 metres.

Down South at Woolgonga Inlet at Narooma inside the inlet the wave height is 2.5 metres, 'inside the inlet.' The swell can be seen pulsing at 10 minute intervals and seen right out to the horizon, I've just been told. I did a ring around, the three closest RVCP Stations are all local calls. Not even the big trawlers went out today from Narooma.

No one has crossed the bars today at Bateman's Bay, Woolgonga Inlet or Shoalhaven Heads. The way the swells are building on the South Coast, the guys at the RVCP stations are expecting the swells to be building over the next 3 days and getting much bigger. Bateman's Bay is rough in the Bay but the Bay doesn't get the big swells, being 3nm west of the Toll Gate Islands that protect the Bay and the Clyde River.

"If you can't do +5.5 knots over the top of the current, from the delayed times, because of the increased volume of the water coming out of the inlet, at slack water which is now (3pm), your not going anywhere," is how one of the Coastal Patrol Officers described Woolgonga. That makes the current at slack water in excess of 11 knots to a distance of 3 nm out to sea, if you are in the stream. The waves at Woolgonga are so big at the moment, guys are surfing on Bar Beach inside the shark net ... for those who might know this area.

The Radar showing the South Coast shows the area south of Sydney looking ominous.

http://mirror.bom.gov.au/products/IDR032.loop.shtml?looping=1&reloaded=0&topography=true&locations=true&range=true#skip

The bar webcams, I can't bring them up at the moment, all of the webcam links are saying, "pages not available." They've probably switched the cameras off ... so as not to scare the tourists.

Warren.

[Paul Girouard]

#1: Ah - just a bit of shorthand - sorta like saying Jap instead of Japanese.

#2: In longhand it meant that I had an expensive visit to my cardiologist yesterday, with the promise of an even more expensive visit next week. If it keeps up, he'll be able to buy a Porsche in no time.



#1: Sort of with the exception one is a racial slur:rolleyes:

Just when I though there was a glimmer of hope for you :D

#2: You ain't gonna kick of on us are ya?! Sure a lot of "bad" things on the forum of late.

DO DIEING Bigfella! Good luck with your saw bones visit eh.

Big tides here on Whidbey as well , you'd THINK, some how , we're all connected in this thing called life:eek: ;)

[The Bigfella]

1. If used as such, yep - if used as an abbreviation - no. I don't do racial slurs.

2. Not planning on it. Got some still undiagnosed issues in or around the engine, but its still working.

...as for the tides - tonight's was reported as being the biggest in 40 years. Some houses at Old Bar were undermined last night and the local Council has ordered them demolished. They may not be there in the morning to be demolished if the seas keep up.

[Frank E. Price]

18.4' hi last night; -4.3' lo this morning here. Big tide, but the November and December springs will be a bit over 19'.

Frank

[BrianW]

Bet Snow Passage was fun.

[seanz]

I'm suprised we haven't spotted a Dingo yet.....

http://www.broomeport.com/about_broome_port.html

Broome in Western Australia gets an 8 meter tide, about 26 feet.

[Clencher]

There have been big tides in the UK this week too. We usually associate big tides with the Equinox but it's June and we are nearly at the Solstice. Any Oceanographers out there who can explain why?

[BrianW]

President Bush and Global Warming.

Now we can take this to the Bilge. :D