Why do the French have higher tides?

[alant]

Always thought it was because of the Cherbourg Peninsular!
Acts like a coffer dam, so as the tide hits it, the water piles up.
Bit like the Bristol Channel, where this is due to funneling.

Tide has no-where else to go, other than up.

 

[peterb]

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Try reading NP120 - Admiralty Manual of Tides. If you are not sleeping too well, you can try reading it all the way through again.

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Good to see that someone else reads NP120. And Chart 5058?

NP120 can be used to write your own tidal prediction program, with a validity going well beyond the commercial versions. I once used it to look at the tides for the Spanish Armada, initially with very poor results. Then I realised that I had forgotten about the change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, after which it all fell into place.

 

[Birdseye]

Why do they have higher tides? French hauteur I guess

 

[bobgoode]

I would suggest that the real reason has more to do with EU subsidies pa\yable to their boating industry after they put up a stink and demanded to be treated just like their farmers.

 

[bobgosling]

The real reason is probably due to a brown paper bag full of Euros passed to one of out Masters in Brussels .....

 

[Gunfleet]

I have been there and had a look, and despite the funny accents I can assure you jersey is not in France /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif