Tidal Predictions for 2011

[Jan Harber]

Can anyone out there advise as to where one could access tide times for next year, 2011?
A friend needs to work out LW times on the Suffolk. Bird counting is to be arranged and this needs to be done when LW is around the middle of the day.
I would also like to know when LW comes around midday on the the N Norfolk Coast in order to organise some horse riding on the beach next year.
So he needs Harwich and ideally I need Hunstanton data.
Any ideas?

 

[Skysail]

Easytide provides them for a few pounds

http://easytide.ukho.gov.uk/EasyTide/EasyTide/index.aspx

 

[LittleShip]

Can anyone out there advise as to where one could access tide times for next year, 2011?
A friend needs to work out LW times on the Suffolk. Bird counting is to be arranged and this needs to be done when LW is around the middle of the day.
I would also like to know when LW comes around midday on the the N Norfolk Coast in order to organise some horse riding on the beach next year.
So he needs Harwich and ideally I need Hunstanton data.
Any ideas?

http://www.wxtide32.com/ It's free

Tom

 

[oldfrank]

Not too tricky at all; although I fear you are going to have to spend a couple of shillings somewhere. The two major producers of UK tide tabels: HM Hydrographics Office & Proudman Oceanics both prohibit putting more than a few days of their predictions on a website. Hydrographics is usually the cheapest source (tel: 01823 - 337900). Obtain Lowestoft lunar predictions for 2011 - and bear in mind the usual health warnings about North Sea tides; that wind direction, barometric pressure, weather off Iceland etc., etc., can all make lunar projections suspect.

Lowestoft is one of HM Hydrographers standard ports - their gauge is in a square, girder- like structure beneath the Bascule bridge control office. Don't forget to correct for BST and add 1 hour 30 mins to Lowestoft times for Aldeburgh. Harwich is Aldeburgh + 50 minutes. High Water at Wells bar is 2 hours 50 minutes earlier than Lowestoft. If low water times are required, I'm absolutely confident you don't need me to tell you to add or subtract roughly 6.5 hours.

You can work your way around the coast with almost useless gems. HW Hunstanton is the same as Hull - so guess where their tide tables come from? HW at St. Olaves is the same time as London bridge ... not a lot of people know that! Hope that helps.

 

[oldfrank]

Spring tides are always at broadly similar times on a particular stretch of coast - and roughly, North Norfolk is around 0600. Great Yarmouth gets flooded at breakfast time! OF

 

[MoodySabre]

Harwich tides here time control at bottom of page. You could use tidal differences from there:

Aldeburgh beach -0105
Lowestoft -0223
Wells Bar is Immingham +0020

 

[Jan Harber]

Thanks for all these helpful suggestions. Yes, if we are going to be flooded round here (Orford, Aldeburgh, Snape) HW springs is around lunchtime or midnight. In fact, tomorrow, Mon and Tues is going to be quite a high one and should look good by the light of the full moon, but don't think I'll stay up to see it!

In the end it turned out that the BTO (British Trust for Ornithology, I think) had some data for 2011 tides so the bird counting is sorted.