Yesterday’s tides

[doris]

I’m in Cap Ferret, west of Bordeaux at the moment.
Yesterday the afternoon tide, at about 18.15 local time, was the highest ever that any of the locals could remember. We are currently half way between both lunar cycles, yesterday’s co-efficients were 77. It was pretty much bang on, time wise, with the lunar prediction.
What was driving the extraordinarily high tide????
Lots of clever people here…………. And was it the same up north in the channel???

 

[oakleyb]

Lots of people swimming I guess

 

[doris]

Lots of people swimming I guess

But they’re not THAT fat !!!! This isn’t the US

 

[John_Silver]

. And was it the same up north in the channel???

All ‘normal,’ in St Peter Port

 

[Thresher]

I’m in Cap Ferret, west of Bordeaux at the moment.
Yesterday the afternoon tide, at about 18.15 local time, was the highest ever that any of the locals could remember. We are currently half way between both lunar cycles, yesterday’s co-efficients were 77. It was pretty much bang on, time wise, with the lunar prediction.
What was driving the extraordinarily high tide????
Lots of clever people here…………. And was it the same up north in the channel???

I'm in Bilbao and just stepped off the boat onto the pontoon to go for some shopping. I walked down the gangway to the gate, normally you walk up. I thought that was strange.

 

[John_Silver]

Something going on, in the south east corner of Biscay then…..

 

[rotrax]

Unusualy low air pressure?

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Unusualy low air pressure?

And strong NW winds?

 

[wonkywinch]

Unusualy low air pressure?

I thought that so looked it up. At the time of the OPs experience, the air pressure at Bordeaux Airport (4th Aug at 1615UTC) was 1016 hpa which is slightly higher than a standard atmosphere (1013.25hpa) so it wasn't that.

The wind was easterly at 5kts so not that either.

Bordeaux LFBD metars

METAR LFBD 041630Z AUTO 07006KT 020V120 CAVOK 28/15 Q1016 NOSIG=

 

[Chiara’s slave]

A kraken in the bay of Biscay?

 

[johnalison]

It was a microtsunami, a warning of worse to come. You're doomed, I say.