Long range tide forecasts?

Messiah Khan

Messiah Khan

Messiah Khan

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Does anyone know where I can get long range tidal forcasts from? Im after them for the week beginning the 6th August. BBC only seems to cover 1 week.
 
Tide forecasts are fixed and you can get tables for years in advance, so best place to look is a site specific to the area you are going, if that makes sense?

Whereabouts are you looking for tides for?

EDIT: Have a look here. :)

http://www.pol.ac.uk/ntslf/tidalp.html


And I found this on another forum

Not too difficult to do yourself, once you have the basic details. What you need to do is, for a given locality, plot the time of high tide against the phase of the moon. This remains constant for a given locality.

So where I am, at new moon and full moon, high tide is at 4am and 4pm (GMT; 5am/pm BST), and at half-moon, 10am & pm, etc.

So if you check the tide times over a lunar cycle (29 days) for the locality you wish to visit in several months, then see the date of full etc moon for when you will be there, you can get a pretty good estimate of the tides.

Another tip: Spring tides are typically 2 days after new moon and full moon; neap tides are 2 days after each half-moon.
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Not sure if it is helpful or not. :)
 
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Thanks. The link you found only has a 7 day forcast though unfortunately. I could forcast it myself, but that sounds like mucho effort tbh. Im basically after is for all of next week in the Saltburn area. (Going to take pictures of the sunrise, so need to know when conditions are going to be best.)
 
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