Tidal Information

[DeeGee]

Having read a number of threads on tidal prediction programs, how accurate, how much use anyway, etc etc... I came across this tidal site which allows comparison between actual and predicted. Quite interesting, probably boring /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Thistle]

Interesting site. I'd like to be able to correlate this with observations of barometric pressure and wind speed and direction.

 

[CSFenwick]

The differences seem to be down to local weather conditions which is informative in itself when you see >0.5m extra tide because of low pressure and strong onshore winds (as it was at Holyhead one day last week).

I’ve used Belfield tide plotter a fair bit to work out depth at low water when anchoring and find it incredibly accurate - but then I'm rarely anchoring in anything other than relatively benign conditions!