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Re: Map of the "Age of the Tides"
From: George Huxtable
Date: 2004 Jan 13, 16:28 +0000
From: George Huxtable
Date: 2004 Jan 13, 16:28 +0000
Frank Reed has provided a useful picture showing the age-of-the-tide, in Europe and elsewhere. Presumably, the ports marked "2 days" are those with an age-of-the-tide between 1.5 and 2.5 days (and so on). He concludes- >The lag is three days along the southern coast of the North Sea and two days >in neighboring areas. That is much more in accord with my own experience of tides in Europe than his original sweeping statement of 22 Dec- >In the case of northwest Europe, the result is that the solar tides lag the >lunar tides and Spring Tides occur about three days after New Moon and Full >Moon. Frank and I no longer disagree about European tides, it seems. George. ================================================================ contact George Huxtable by email at george@huxtable.u-net.com, by phone at 01865 820222 (from outside UK, +44 1865 820222), or by mail at 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK. ================================================================
