On Oct 28, 4:37*pm, Richard Dixon wrote:
On 28 Oct, 13:04, Weatherlawyer wrote:





On Oct 28, 10:51*am, Richard Dixon wrote:

Dear All,

Just wondering if anyone had any links that showed graphs of yearly
tide heights (both this year and historically) for locations on the UK
coastline?

Am intrigued by the storm surge event on the south coast on 24th
October 1999 - my parents have a little bolt-hole in Pevensey Bay that
was quite badly affected as strong winds coincided with the
equinoctial tides.

What is this sweetheart? Considering joining the unwashed?

If you are willing to pay twice, the British taxpayer is funding Her
Madge's Admiralty with a service to all mankind. You will get better
service from Uncle Sam.

No Aah!

Thanks for the link.

Do not mention IT.
Here is more stuff of nonesense:

http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/dat...20Constituents
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/har...cons_defs.html

That last one is to this:
Harmonic Constituents Name Definitions
M2 - Principal lunar semidiurnal constituent
S2 - Principal solar semidiurnal constituent
N2 - Larger lunar elliptic semidiurnal constituent
K1 - Lunar diurnal constituent
M4 - Shallow water overtides of principal lunar constituent
O1 - Lunar diurnal constituent
M6 - Shallow water overtides of principal lunar constituent
MK3 - Shallow water terdiurnal
S4 - Shallow water overtides of principal solar constituent
MN4 - Shallow water quarter diurnal constituent
NU2 - Larger lunar evectional constituent
S6 - Shallow water overtides of principal solar constituent
MU2 - Variational constituent
2N2 - Lunar elliptical semidiurnal second-order constituent
OO1 - Lunar diurnal
LAM2 - Smaller lunar evectional constituent
S1 - Solar diurnal constituent
M1 - Smaller lunar elliptic diurnal constituent
J1 - Smaller lunar elliptic diurnal constituent
MM - Lunar monthly constituent
SSA - Solar semiannual constituent
SA - Solar annual constituent
MSF - Lunisolar synodic fortnightly constituent
MF - Lunisolar fortnightly constituent
RHO - Larger lunar evectional diurnal constituent
Q1 - Larger lunar elliptic diurnal constituent
T2 - Larger solar elliptic constituent
R2 - Smaller solar elliptic constituent
2Q1 - Larger elliptic diurnal
P1 - Solar diurnal constituent
2SM2 - Shallow water semidiurnal constituent
M3 - Lunar terdiurnal constituent
L2 - Smaller lunar elliptic semidiurnal constituent
2MK3 - Shallow water terdiurnal constituent
K2 - Lunisolar semidiurnal constituent
M8 - Shallow water eighth diurnal constituent
MS4 - Shallow water quarter diurnal constituent

None of which means much without the nouse to determine what is going
on.

I have a feeling it is a deep sea seiche that causes a disturbance,
perhaps centring a plop up or splosh of some sort at the amphidromic
points.

If there are two such points one each side of Britain, it would
explain the system.

I was thinking that diurnal heating might have something to do with it
but that would be too regular obviously and distributed evenly across
the day, varying very noticeably with the seasons.

Besides, heat in sea surface is caried off too quickly.

Though a seiche between Cuba and the Mid Atlantic Ridge would explain
the low ranges in the gulf and the rotation of surface currents
through that region.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphidromic_point